Stone Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 It's much more convenient. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lex Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 I just did an experiment. In a private browsing session I was able to open 15 articles with no problem. The site stopped me at #16 and said I had to subscribe. I closed down the private browsing session and then started another. The clock was reset and I opened 5 new articles before I stopped. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 i've tried to pay, but the cognitive dissonance - i have to pay more to have an online-only subscription vs having online + something delivered to my home - always keeps me off it. Â I've had to explain to more than one overnight visitor why I still get this paper delivered that I throw out every morning. Â It IS crazy. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephanieL Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 I can't open the main site at all using IE 8. No problems with Firefox or Safari. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
prasantrin Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 I just did an experiment. In a private browsing session I was able to open 15 articles with no problem. The site stopped me at #16 and said I had to subscribe. I closed down the private browsing session and then started another. The clock was reset and I opened 5 new articles before I stopped. Â It must sense that I am a very very honest person who would feel terribly guilty for trying to subvert the system, so it stops me before I cross that line. Â Plus my life just sucks that way. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Orik Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 I just did an experiment. In a private browsing session I was able to open 15 articles with no problem. The site stopped me at #16 and said I had to subscribe. I closed down the private browsing session and then started another. The clock was reset and I opened 5 new articles before I stopped. Â It must sense that I am a very very honest person who would feel terribly guilty for trying to subvert the system, so it stops me before I cross that line. Â Plus my life just sucks that way. Â Â See Lex? It works! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Nathan Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 Maybe that's their strategy. The cost of a digital subscription is not completely trivial - $15 a month to read the Times on a computer and smart phone. $180 a year. They ratchet that up to $35 a month ($420 a year) to add access on a tablet. Why reading the Times on a tablet should cost twice as much as on a phone or laptop is a mystery to me.  Digital subscriptions  the cost is actually $16 a month for either option. here's how: get the Sunday paper home delivered and all the digital access is free. $16.40 per month. (this is the one I have). or you can get the M-F paper home delivered and all the digital access for free. $16.20 per month. they have some sort of weird yield pricing going on if you do a digital subscription.  eta: I suppose the difference is that the home delivery subscription gives them much more ad revenue. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lex Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 I think you might be on to something with that idea of higher ad revenue on the print version. It would explain a lot. Â Otherwise the pricing model makes no sense. Why charge less for a product which costs money to print and distribute unless there are other factors involved. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SLBunge Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 Maybe that's their strategy. The cost of a digital subscription is not completely trivial - $15 a month to read the Times on a computer and smart phone. $180 a year. They ratchet that up to $35 a month ($420 a year) to add access on a tablet. Why reading the Times on a tablet should cost twice as much as on a phone or laptop is a mystery to me.  Digital subscriptions  the cost is actually $16 a month for either option. here's how: get the Sunday paper home delivered and all the digital access is free. $16.40 per month. (this is the one I have). or you can get the M-F paper home delivered and all the digital access for free. $16.20 per month. they have some sort of weird yield pricing going on if you do a digital subscription.  eta: I suppose the difference is that the home delivery subscription gives them much more ad revenue. This is what we do. Sunday only delivery for $16.40. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Orik Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 My sources tell me that it's working. That is, the meme that you should be willing to pay for the newspaper on a tablet / pc nearly as much as you would for the paper version seems to have crossed the critical point. Time for some Korbel at nyt headquarters. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AaronS Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 clearing your cookies no longer works, at least on my machine. it may force us to get home delivery. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lex Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 clearing your cookies no longer works, at least on my machine. it may force us to get home delivery. Â Try this. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
prasantrin Posted March 24, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2013 Since I haven't been able to delete the stuff after the ? in order to read unlimited articles, I've been using links from Google Reader to read since it has let me read as many articles as I want. Â Last week, it stopped letting me do that. I got 10, and that's it. Not just "that's it for this session", but I'm guessing "that's it for the rest of the month." Â Private browsing, whether using IE or Firefox will let me read 10, but then I have to shut down the browser and start all over again. Not a terrible thing, but it's annoying. Â But Twitter--for whatever reason, you can click on all the links the NYTimes posts in Twitter, and it will never stop you from reading. For now,anyway. This could change soon and unexpectedly, like everything else. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wilfrid Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 Subscriptions seem to have hit a ceiling. Â Cheaper deals on the way. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Robert Brown Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 I haven't read this thread, but using In Private on IE 8 does the trick. Why they haven't ixed this is beyond me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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