Today, I was reading the NYT with a web browser, logged in to my account. I got this message:
“That’s kind of weird.” I thought. I kept reading. Pretty soon I got this message:
I persisted, and saw this:
I was already logged in, so I clicked on the link to link my account, in spite of the fact that I thought I’d already done that very thing. This is what I saw them:
I filled out the form and submitted it, and got this:
So I logged in again. After I tried to read another article, I got this:
It appears to be an infinite loop. I tried it with another computer, with the same results. Interestingly, it appears that you get twenty free articles per computer per month. Then I tried a different browser on a computer on which I had already been denied access. That worked fine. I looks like you can read 20 times the number of browsers you have installed times the number of computers you have free articles a month.
Still, it ticks me off that my thirty two buck a month doesn’t really buy me unlimited web access to the NYT.
Disable Javascript and you’ll be able to read all the articles to your heart’s content. If you don’t want to do that, and if you’re using Firefox, click on the article and when the message comes up concerning you running out of articles, click on the “reader view” icon next to your address bar. Done deal.