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Wanted to read the article, but instead got this: "You're in private mode. Log in or create a free New York Times account to continue reading in private mode."
by qilo 8y ago
Wanted to read the article, but instead got this: "You're in private mode. Log in or create a free New York Times account to continue reading in private mode." So headed for page source and stumbled onto this wtf:
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From: Kingsbury, Katie <katie.kingsbury@nytimes.com>
Date: Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 2:30 PM
Subject: Rollout
To: Bennet, James <james.bennet@nytimes.com>
James,
Here’s a line up for the launch tomorrow, all of these will be online before Sunday:
• A.G.’s publisher’s note about The Times
• Manjoo on household items that track us
• Wu on the history of privacy
• Jeong on A.I. and insurance
• Metzel on genetically engineered babies
• Warzel on tech CEOs in their own words
• Fr. Martin on privacy and faith
• Emily Chang on privacy as a feminist issue
• Douthat on our post-privacy order
• Swisher on privacy regulation
• Irby on what’s funny about all this.
Plus, of course, your piece if you can actually get it done in time.
Next week, we’ll drop the piece about how we turned a public camera in Manhattan into a facial recognition equipped surveillance machine and who we caught with it.
The vanity URL is locked in as nytimes.com/privacy-project and the social team has spun up the @PrivacyProject account.
Katie
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- propogandist 8y agothis appears to be a legit email, although I don't understand how this got into the page source. The URL posted in the email nytimes.com/privacy-project redirects to https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/opinion/internet-privacy-project.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/opinion/internet-pr... and there are articles that are published on 4/11/2019 whereas it's only 4/10 as of me writing this comment.
- tdhoot 8y agoWow, how is this comment not getting more notice. This is a hilarious screw-up. Seems like the NYT is launching a new privacy initiative tomorrow.