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Remove The Times Paywall

Read The Times (thetimes.com) articles free — paste a link and we extract the clean article, check archives, and fall back to a smart proxy. No login.

13%success · 240 tries · last 7 days hard paywall

The Times (UK) uses a hard subscription wall, and since September 2026 a device check in front of it. Checked from a home connection with a real browser: past the check, the page carries only the opening lines (about 35 words) — the article is never sent to non-subscribers. The full text comes through only when archive.today holds a capture made with access, which happens for some widely read pieces; otherwise we say so plainly.

How to read The Times without paying

  1. Copy the full The Times article URL.
  2. Paste it above and press Remove Paywall.
  3. We show a clean reader view; use the Full page toggle or Open original if you prefer.

How reliable is it for The Times?

Based on 240 recent attempts logged by the tool, RemovePaywall returned a readable result for about 13% of The Times links. Most come through via an archived copy on archive.today. These numbers update continuously from real usage — see the live supported-sites list.

FAQ

Paste the The Times article URL into the box above and press Remove Paywall. RemovePaywall extracts the clean article, and if it can't, it checks archive.today and the Wayback Machine and falls back to a smart proxy.

You don't need a hack — paste the The Times link above and RemovePaywall recovers the article from the page text or a public archive (archive.today, the Wayback Machine). For hard-gated stories, a gift link from a subscriber or your library's The Times access are the most reliable routes.

Yes — RemovePaywall is free and needs no login. It surfaces publicly archived copies and the article text already present on the page.

The Times uses a hard paywall, so an archived copy (from archive.today or the Wayback Machine) is the most reliable route. Hard-gated pieces only work when an archived snapshot exists.

In our logged usage, about 13% of The Times links returned a readable result. Most come through via an archived copy on archive.today.

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