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You could, you know, pay for a subscription. If you're bumping up on the limit of free articles per month, you're clearly getting some value from the paper. T
by Refefer 13y ago
You could, you know, pay for a subscription. If you're bumping up on the limit of free articles per month, you're clearly getting some value from the paper. There are worse things than supporting good journalism!
- zhemao 13y agoYou could also take the cheapskate's way out and open the link in incognito mode. I don't know what the NYT was thinking when they developed such an easily circumventable paywall.
- HelloMcFly 13y agoThey were probably thinking about the diminishing ROI an increasingly strict and non-circumventable method would bring.
- tracker1 13y agoThat they need google to deliver the eyeballs.
- eob 13y agoThe NYT is executing a decade-long return to payment-based reporting. The early parts include easy-to-circumvent paywalls so that they can have some price discrimination [1] while also setting the social norms that payment is expected for web content. The later stages will likely include more rigid restrictions on content -- but that will only fly once "pay to read" is something people expect from expert content on the web, rather than are surprised by. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination