Remove The Cut Paywall
Paste a link from The Cut: we try the live page first in a clean reader view, then archived copies on archive.today and the Wayback Machine. Free, no login.
metered paywall
The Cut shares New York Magazine's metered subscriber wall with Vulture. The article text is in the page, so we read it in a clean reader view and turn to archived copies if it is missing.
How to read The Cut without paying
- Copy the full Cut article URL.
- Paste it above and press Remove Paywall.
- We show a clean reader view; use the Full page toggle or Open original if you prefer.
FAQ
Paste the Cut article URL into the box above and press Remove Paywall. RemovePaywall tries to read the article from the page, and if it can't, checks archive.today and the Wayback Machine.
You don't need a hack — paste the Cut link above and RemovePaywall tries the article text on the page, then public archives (archive.today, the Wayback Machine).
Yes — RemovePaywall is free and needs no login. It surfaces publicly archived copies and the article text already present on the page.
It reads the article from the page when the text is there, and otherwise looks for a full copy on archive.today and the Wayback Machine — all in one step. The Cut uses a metered wall, so the article is usually present in the page — the reader view and archives recover it.