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The javascript: http://toys.euri.ca/nyt.js http://toys.euri.ca/nyt.js (which is really 3 lines). The NYT does have a really hard problem to solve though. How d

The javascript: http://toys.euri.ca/nyt.js http://toys.euri.ca/nyt.js (which is really 3 lines). The NYT does have a really hard problem to solve though. How do you securely police the "20 free articles a week" system if you can't trust cookies, can't put validation on the page itself, and ip addresses change all the time without requiring even a free account to read the content? They are trying to come up with a modern pay solution to journalism and for that I give them props. It's not going to be an easy road though.

neild 16y ago
How do you securely police the "20 free articles a week" system if you can't trust cookies, can't put validation on the page itself, and ip addresses change all the time without requiring even a free account to read the content? You assume that the number of people with the ability and desire to circumvent your defenses is a small fraction of your total audience, and ignore them.
- eli 16y ago
  In other words, exactly the same way you deal with AdBlock on your ad-supported website.
ultrasaurus 16y ago
Yup and it could be 1 line if we were playing codegolf. I'm loading that code dynamically from the bookmarklet because I assume that they'll change the ids of the divs at some point.
pyre 16y ago
EverCookie?
jacques_chester 16y ago
This is, at least obliquely, the subject of an honours thesis I am working on. I'd like to say more but this margin is too narrow to contain the complete proof.
eli 16y ago
You can trust cookies if you disallow anonymous access and force everyone to sign in to an account, free or otherwise, before reading anything.
- autarch 16y ago
  Then there's nothing to stop people from just making a new free account each time they use up their 20 free stories.
nytincognito 16y ago
Indeed. A simple work-around if you're using chrome: 1) right-click a nytimes article 2) open in incognito mode

neild 16y ago

How do you securely police the "20 free articles a week" system if you can't trust cookies, can't put validation on the page itself, and ip addresses change all the time without requiring even a free account to read the content? You assume that the number of people with the ability and desire to circumvent your defenses is a small fraction of your total audience, and ignore them.

eli 16y ago
In other words, exactly the same way you deal with AdBlock on your ad-supported website.

ultrasaurus 16y ago

Yup and it could be 1 line if we were playing codegolf. I'm loading that code dynamically from the bookmarklet because I assume that they'll change the ids of the divs at some point.

pyre 16y ago

EverCookie?

jacques_chester 16y ago

This is, at least obliquely, the subject of an honours thesis I am working on. I'd like to say more but this margin is too narrow to contain the complete proof.

eli 16y ago

You can trust cookies if you disallow anonymous access and force everyone to sign in to an account, free or otherwise, before reading anything.

autarch 16y ago
Then there's nothing to stop people from just making a new free account each time they use up their 20 free stories.

nytincognito 16y ago

Indeed. A simple work-around if you're using chrome: 1) right-click a nytimes article 2) open in incognito mode