To be clear, its not a developer at the NYTimes that has implemented. It looks like the script in question is hosted on a domain ("tagsrvcs.com") that Adobe us

To be clear, its not a developer at the NYTimes that has implemented. It looks like the script in question is hosted on a domain ("tagsrvcs.com") that Adobe uses when loading JS assets for Omniture. This is very likely a standard Adobe Omniture thing. So its not the NYT acting alone (or necessarily with awareness of this).