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New York Times Halves Monthly Free Article Views To Ten
An anonymous reader writes "The New York Times has announced that, starting in April, visitors to NYTimes.com will only be able to access 10 free articles a month, down from 20 articles currently. The NYTimes paywall was put into effect last year, and seems to have been a success, with nearly half a million digital subscriptions to all of Times Co.'s websites; this despite the fact that the paywall is trivial to circumvent (for example, by deleting all cookies from nytimes.com)."
The submitter included a link to the WSJ article on the change, which appears to also be paywalled.
"If people don't like it they can get their news somewhere else or buy a subscription. This is how the market is supposed to work."
Or they could just delete the cookie and read on.
I just open all NYT and WSJ articles in "incognito mode" or whatever it's called on your favorite browser.
I like to think of it as a game, where you lose one life each time you accidentally click on an article without opening it in incognito mode. If you lose all 10 lives, you "lose" the game and can't read good journalism for the remainder of the month.
moox. for a new generation.
It's actually pretty amazing to change your agent string to googlebot and see what opens up for you. For example, all those tech sites that want you to sign up to get an answer suddenly become wide open.