This article explains how to view the blurry text on articles behind a paywall to see what you get if you log in or subscribe to that site. Unblocking a paywall to view blurry text doesn’t work on all sites, and while there are several tips you can try, you’ll have the most success with the first few outlined below.

This method will trick the website into thinking it is your first visit. This only works for sites that blur the text after you have reached their limit of free articles.

There are many ways to do this, including clearing your browser cookies and trying again, and there are even entire services built around it. The last step offers a few alternatives, but we'll show you how it works using the Internet Archive.

Go to Internet Archive and enter the URL of the web page in the text box.