This is a nice gesture, but true to my form, I'm going to spring board off of it with negativity:
This is the absolute stupidity of pay walls in order to force a small segment of users into third party dynamic ad insertion. It's greedy and lazy while somewhat giving away editorial control of articles to whatever javascript gets shoved down the pipe at you.
That newspapers haven't build their own ad serving network or their own analytics network in 2024 is something I seriously didn't expect. It's so mind boggling, I refuse to even take their freebies at this point, I'd much rather get the article through a third party that strips everything out.
It sends the correct message, you're greedy, and now you get _nothing_.
I don't quite follow your thought process but admire your vociferousness.
In this case I got this link from a newsletter, who presumably have a deal with NYT in that from time to time they are able to offer a special "back door" through the NYT paywall. NYT expects this will increase their paid audience, and the newsletter gets valuable content to increase their own value to their readers so a win-win for them both.
This particular article doesn't render properly through the parent archival site's link, but it does though the link I provided.
Wishing you luck in your crusade against paywalls! Personally I find them annoying but don't see how I can legitimately have an issue with them, it seems like simple capitalism at work.
So, you don't think quality journalism is worth paying for, upfront, direct to the creators, but rather through a proxy system based around advertising
This is the absolute stupidity of pay walls in order to force a small segment of users into third party dynamic ad insertion. It's greedy and lazy while somewhat giving away editorial control of articles to whatever javascript gets shoved down the pipe at you.
That newspapers haven't build their own ad serving network or their own analytics network in 2024 is something I seriously didn't expect. It's so mind boggling, I refuse to even take their freebies at this point, I'd much rather get the article through a third party that strips everything out.
It sends the correct message, you're greedy, and now you get _nothing_.