Nytimes.com to require subscriptions

[G. Keenan]

They seem to have changed the name of the cookie they were using to count articles read. Originally it was the brilliantly named "meter.nytimes.com" or something like that so you could delete just that one without losing your recommended articles, most read, etc. Anyone know what the name of the new cookie is? It doesn't seem to be something with nytimes or some variation thereof in the name.

[Bo Hart]

They seem to have changed the name of the cookie they were using to count articles read. Originally it was the brilliantly named "meter.nytimes.com" or something like that so you could delete just that one without losing your recommended articles, most read, etc. Anyone know what the name of the new cookie is? It doesn't seem to be something with nytimes or some variation thereof in the name.

Maybe they do it server side now. Instead of storing a cookie on your computer, they could possibly track your IP address. That wouldn't be as robust or as reliable (because your IP address would change if you're accessing the site from different locations), but it's possible.

[G. Keenan]

They seem to have changed the name of the cookie they were using to count articles read. Originally it was the brilliantly named "meter.nytimes.com" or something like that so you could delete just that one without losing your recommended articles, most read, etc. Anyone know what the name of the new cookie is? It doesn't seem to be something with nytimes or some variation thereof in the name.

Maybe they do it server side now. Instead of storing a cookie on your computer, they could possibly track your IP address. That wouldn't be as robust or as reliable (because your IP address would change if you're accessing the site from different locations), but it's possible.

I don't think that's it. I couldn't find the specific cookie so I just cleared all my cookies and that did the trick.

[Bo Hart]

I don't think that's it. I couldn't find the specific cookie so I just cleared all my cookies and that did the trick.

What browser do you use?

[JackofDiamonds]

They seem to have changed the name of the cookie they were using to count articles read. Originally it was the brilliantly named "meter.nytimes.com" or something like that so you could delete just that one without losing your recommended articles, most read, etc. Anyone know what the name of the new cookie is? It doesn't seem to be something with nytimes or some variation thereof in the name.

Maybe they do it server side now. Instead of storing a cookie on your computer, they could possibly track your IP address. That wouldn't be as robust or as reliable (because your IP address would change if you're accessing the site from different locations), but it's possible.

I don't think that's it. I couldn't find the specific cookie so I just cleared all my cookies and that did the trick.

So:
1) Clear all of your cookies and then go to the NYTimes.
2) Check your cookies for the name of the new NYTimes cookie...
3) Profit!

[Arthur Dent]

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[ghostrunner]

FWIW

"It will take years for the ultimate wisdom of the Times’ strategy to be apparent, but the company’s second-quarter-earnings report proves that its digital-subscription plan has thus far been an enormous success," Mnookin writes. "The internal projections have been closely held, but several people have confirmed that the goal was to amass 300,000 online subscribers within a year of launch. On Thursday, the company announced that after just four months, 224,000 users were paying for access to the paper’s website. Combined with the 57,000 Kindle and Nook readers who were paying for subscriptions and the roughly 100,000 users whose digital access was sponsored by Ford’s Lincoln division, that meant the paper had monetized close to 400,000 online users. (Another 756,000 print subscribers have registered their accounts on the Times’ website.)"

[Freed Roger]

Been a digital NYT 5 p/mo subscriber for a while. 33rd etc guilted me into it haha. Support the free press!

Anyways, I will hang with it, I click on enough article to pay for it. But their digital mobile home page is a bore. They beat to death one topic on it. Right now it is 5 coronavirus articles. Tomorrow, back to democratic primaries.

Bah!