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Does everyone on HN have NY Times subscriptions? So many articles posted here are from there and I can’t read them without going through lots of hoops.

supergauntlet 7y ago
Most sites with soft paywalls you can just open in an incognito window. They're doing it with cookies.
e40 7y ago
I think a lot do. I have a digital sub. It's $9.99/mo, but goes up after a year, and when I call to cancel they lower it to $9.99/mo again. The Daily podcast is wonderful. The NYT isn't without fault, but they are probably the best media company in the US.
organsnyder 7y ago
I subscribe to the NY Times (and the print edition, anachronistically), as well as a few other outlets. Good journalism costs a lot of money.
shaki-dora 7y ago
At $10/month it's really worth it, although you have to remember to cancel and resubscribe after a year. They do an awful lot of important investigative journalism, and I don't want to see what a society without such work looks like.
- zigzaggy 7y ago
  Interesting post to be getting down voted. I personally don't subscribe, but I value opinions that are different than mine (which include all media outlets, on all sides). I DO subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, which is worth the cost to me. I'm a stock market junkie so there's that.
  - shaki-dora 7y ago
    HN hates the news media and expects hobbyist bloggers and youtubers to become reliable and comprehensive sources of news any day now... I guess people still see the WSJ and NYT on opposite ends of a spectrum. But while the ideological differences persist, I think the more significant difference these days is between reputable outlets and those that are not. On that axis, the WSJ and NYT are both fine, as are a few others.
keldaris 7y ago
Personally, I had no idea they even paywalled these articles at all. On the browser I run (Firefox, using uBlock and uMatrix with extremely restrictive settings, basically anything but plain HTML has to be whitelisted) everything works just fine.

supergauntlet 7y ago

Most sites with soft paywalls you can just open in an incognito window. They're doing it with cookies.

e40 7y ago

I think a lot do. I have a digital sub. It's $9.99/mo, but goes up after a year, and when I call to cancel they lower it to $9.99/mo again. The Daily podcast is wonderful. The NYT isn't without fault, but they are probably the best media company in the US.

organsnyder 7y ago

I subscribe to the NY Times (and the print edition, anachronistically), as well as a few other outlets. Good journalism costs a lot of money.

shaki-dora 7y ago

At $10/month it's really worth it, although you have to remember to cancel and resubscribe after a year. They do an awful lot of important investigative journalism, and I don't want to see what a society without such work looks like.

zigzaggy 7y ago
Interesting post to be getting down voted. I personally don't subscribe, but I value opinions that are different than mine (which include all media outlets, on all sides). I DO subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, which is worth the cost to me. I'm a stock market junkie so there's that.
- shaki-dora 7y ago
  HN hates the news media and expects hobbyist bloggers and youtubers to become reliable and comprehensive sources of news any day now... I guess people still see the WSJ and NYT on opposite ends of a spectrum. But while the ideological differences persist, I think the more significant difference these days is between reputable outlets and those that are not. On that axis, the WSJ and NYT are both fine, as are a few others.

keldaris 7y ago

Personally, I had no idea they even paywalled these articles at all. On the browser I run (Firefox, using uBlock and uMatrix with extremely restrictive settings, basically anything but plain HTML has to be whitelisted) everything works just fine.