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Welp, scratch the New York Times off my list of news sites. That goes straight to a login page now. No article, nothing.
by beedogs 10y ago
Welp, scratch the New York Times off my list of news sites. That goes straight to a login page now. No article, nothing.
- codemac 10y agoDoes the web button underneath the story help you?
- bertiewhykovich 10y agoI agree; it's terrible that journalists expect to be compensated for their labor.
- bbcbasic 10y agoIts weird having HN submission where only a subset of HNers can make comments though. I am happy for them to have a paywall but question whether it should be kept on HN if there is no information for most people to comment on. It is the equivalent of linking to a paid book on Amazon and having a discussion about the book's content.
- imron 10y agoIt's not paywalled. NYTimes automatically redirects to the login page if you have cookies disabled. The link works fine if you haven't disabled cookies - and that's on the user as much as it is on the NYTimes.
- esrauch 10y agoI don't have cookies disabled but I do have adblock and I get the paywall, but if I open it in an incognito window it shows so I'm guessing its also triggered by ABP (or some other condition).
- user5994461 10y agoWell, if 99% of the book was freely available for viewing on 9 other websites than Amazon, I bet that people would complain A LOT for being given a link to Amazon instead of one of the numerous readable sites.
- pjmorris 10y ago> It is the equivalent of linking to a paid book on Amazon and having a discussion about the book's content. I'd wager, without proof for the moment, that the majority of books discussed on HN are 'paid books' at Amazon or elsewhere.
- taneq 10y agoTo be fair, Blindsight comes up on a very regular basis, and that's freely available on the author's web site. :) But yeah, despite the increasing prevalence of legitimate free-to-air soft copies of books, paid is still the default.
- EGreg 10y agoSo what can we do to stop these terrible things from happening?
- bertiewhykovich 10y agoWell, as all of us in Silicon Valley know, regulations are nothing more than irksome impediments to the march of progress. Let's roll 'em all back.
- cheiVia0 10y agoWorks in the Tor Browser.
- imron 10y agoEnable cookies and click the link again.
- lkrubner 10y agoThis is how I got in: Open an Incognito window in Google Chrome. Go to nytimes.com. Search for "Common Swift Bird". Sort by "newest". Go read the article.
- erdifr 10y agoI was only able to get past the login page once I cleared all nytimes cookies from my browser.
- Digit-Al 10y agoRight click and open link in private/incognito window.