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Configure your browser to drop nytimes.com cookies on exit. Works for me. I never visit the site deliberately, but I do land there occasionally by following li

• nl 13y ago
  Surprisingly, that doesn't seem affect the add in the physical paper...
• jrockway 13y ago
  Well, I pay for the Times. Nobody is forcing me to do that, but I like them, so I give them some money. It would be nice to not look at ads, but it's their newspaper, not mine, so it's not really for me to decide except with my wallet. It's tough for content creators to make money, so I'm grateful that the Times can subsist on my $12 a month and some sponsors. In another Universe where everyone was willing to open their wallet, I'd prefer paying $24 a month and not seeing ads. But I guess that's not enough money to run one of the world's top newspapers, otherwise, that's what it would cost. No reputable publication wants a potential conflict of interest to taint their reporting, after all. (Consumer Reports is an example of content that is solely paid for with subscriber's money. Good, but not as good as the Times. And there are still controversies, like employees at CR getting jobs at companies whose products they've reviewed. It's hard to eliminate all conflicts of interest in the skeptical eyes of Internet critics.)