accounts are never free.l, even if they say they are. it’s to sell your data, and then harass you with notifications and emails to give them money for nonsense
Journalism costs money. It sucks to make an account (even a burner) or to understand how to use reader mode in your browser to bypass all of that but… we have seen how this plays out.
The “good” outlets mostly pivot to listicle slop. And the people who ARE paying for news media tend to be the boomers and we get like twelve OANs.
I don’t want to create a free account just to read a news article!
Gift link (no account needed):
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/opinion/-trump-lost-war-iran.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qlA.Jz5Z.Z3P-l3xyycvB
How many clicks/days until it expires?
It’s unlimited as far as I know…
https://help.nytimes.com/360060848652-Gift-Articles-for-New-York-Times-Subscribers (arc)
Hope you’re a fast reader…
If I can push through a word an hour, I can do it
I see Trump’s plans for the US education system are paying dividends
There are a lot more people than me who I am worried about being able to access information
accounts are never free.l, even if they say they are. it’s to sell your data, and then harass you with notifications and emails to give them money for nonsense
Journalism costs money. It sucks to make an account (even a burner) or to understand how to use reader mode in your browser to bypass all of that but… we have seen how this plays out.
The “good” outlets mostly pivot to listicle slop. And the people who ARE paying for news media tend to be the boomers and we get like twelve OANs.
No number of subscriptions to the Washington Post I could pay for will stop them from reporting what Jeff Bezos wants
Is archive.is down?