@KewGardens613 and @Flibirigit : you may be able to get access by following the steps outlined above in the comments on August 14 and August 15. It's a bit complicated, but it worked for me and several others in this thread.

In T322916#10079509, @Vchimpanzee wrote:

In T322916#10067970, @SammiBrie wrote:

A good idea might be to separately sign in to Newspapers.com (non-proxied) and manage clippings from there.

What does this mean, exactly? I am signed in to newspapers.com. I try to create a clipping and it tells me to sign in.

Here's exactly what I did to get it to work for me (on Firefox – if you use Chrome or any other browser, someone else will have to provide those instructions):

In T322916#10063620, @mxn wrote:

Searches are working for me. I’m still unable to log in with my personal account through the proxy due to the CloudFlare error I mentioned earlier. Fortunately, I seem to have a workaround in Firefox:

1. Log into Newspapers.com through the official site.
2. Open the Storage tab of developer tools and copy the values of the user_data and user_token cookies, as well as their expiration dates.
3. Go to www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org and clear all cookies and local storage associated with the site.
4. In the Storage tab of developer tools, add new user_data and user_token cookies matching what you copied from Newspapers.com.

This worked well enough for me to create a clipping (view without proxy).

Well, do we know how many accounts existed immediately before the switch to the proxy method?

For those of us who already have individual accounts (and were given access through them under the old system), would the process be any easier? I hate to ask for anything resembling special treatment, just curious to know how much of a difficulty it presents. From my layperson's perspective, I wouldn't expect it to require manual approval for each individual account or anything, but I know nothing about their system.

@SammiBrie: Sorry, I thought you meant the issue with creating clippings, not an issue with viewing them. I have experienced the problem with viewing clippings as well, but in my experience it's resolved by just refreshing the page a couple times until it works. I frankly didn't realize that was a problem specific to the proxy, I thought it was just Newspapers.com itself glitching out.

I think the clipping page issue is one and the same with the login issue, because you need to be logged in before you can create a clipping.

Things seem to have gotten worse: until this morning, I could still view any page without being logged in, I just couldn't make clippings. Now when I'm in the proxy system, I get the same "You need a subscription to view this page; Start a 7-Day Free Trial" message that one would get if they had no access at all.

Same here. It doesn't seem to be possible to log in at all, since all three login methods are not functioning now. This applies both to Firefox and to Microsoft Edge, which had previously been an effective workaround to other issues.

I was having the same search problem earlier, but it went away after a little while. Now it's back again

Just tried this and it worked. All I did was delete the cookies, no logging out or closing tabs.

As a test, I tried spoofing the Firefox user-agent claiming to be Edge and it didn't help. So it's something about the actual functionality of the different browsers that is creating the different behavior.

In T322916#9852054, @Reschultzed wrote:

I'm currently getting an "Upgrade to a Publisher Extra Subscription to view this page" message on all pages. Just thought I should mention it.

I'm currently getting an "Upgrade to a Publisher Extra Subscription to view this page" message on all pages. Just thought I should mention it.

I personally preferred the old way, even ignoring the issue of reliability, just because you could copy and paste URLs directly off the page without having to manually turn "https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org" back into "https://www.newspapers.com" so ordinary users could access the article. That being said, if we do go back to the old way, I would hope that the application process could be streamlined somehow. It was always a little nerve-wracking to wait for weeks to get re-approved, and sit there wondering "are they looking at my edit history? have I been a good enough Wikipedian to get renewed?"

@Oona_Wikiwalker, it might not be terribly convenient, but have you tried creating a Newspapers.com account entirely separate from your Ancestry account and using that? You should be able to use the same email address for both. It works for me, at least. That may be the best workaround until or unless that integration is fixed.

I also can't connect to any Wikipedia Library OCLC service right now (Firefox says "Unable to connect - An error occurred during a connection to www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org."). The problem persists across different devices, and started sometime early this afternoon. I work for a branch of the University of Wisconsin and have heard a lot in recent weeks about transitory OCLC outages affecting the university's services, so I suspect this could be another manifestation of that, rather than anything on Wikimedia's end.

To clarify, 99.9% of Publisher Extra content still works totally fine, at least for me right this moment. It's just a scattering of these few papers that don't work, like the ones I linked. I think it applies to the entire run of a given paper, so we can't access any of the Lima News or the Brattleboro Reformer. It's a small issue, I just don't know who else to raise it with.

I don't know if this is a related problem or should be filed as a separate ticket, but there are a very small number of papers which cannot be accessed through our library bundle. When you try to visit them, it gives you the same "Upgrade to a Publisher Extra Subscription to view this page" blocking pop-up that you would receive if you didn't have a subscription at all. Some examples I have encountered: https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/image/864192942/ https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/image/548374608/ I assume this is an error and Newspapers.com is not deliberately restricting these from us?

I'm having the same problem

In T322916#9208985, @That_Article_Editing_Guy wrote:

The only solution to our dilemma offered so far by newspapers.com is that of directly contacting ProQuest about a subscription to the website at the link below:

https://about.proquest.com/en/products-services/Newspaperscom-Library-Edition/

ProQuest also offers databases for over forty-five Historical Newspapers and for some Recent Newspapers, and those databases may be added to provide Wikipedia Library users access to other newspapers while the issue of access to newspapers.com is being resolved. The links are as follows:

1. https://about.proquest.com/products-services/pq-hist-news.html
2. https://about.proquest.com/en/products-services/ProQuest-Recent-Newspapers/

I'm also getting the error message mentioned above from Cloudflare. "Ray ID: 80cf1df41bf510c7" if that's useful in any way