Algernon D'AmmassaGift link: This guy is back to threatening to yank broadcast licenses if he or the president doesn’t like the war coverage.
This is totalitarian shit.
Bruce Mirken@algernon The #NYTimes now makes you give them your email address to read a "free" article. For those who prefer not too, use this: https://archive.is/KRdku
Jeri Dansky@BruceMirken This is a gift link, and I could read it just fine without providing an email address. (And no, I don't have a NYT account.) Gift links are different from the metered free articles, which do require an email address as part of setting up a free account. Can you not read the linked article?
Also: Some of us have concerns about archive.is (and its related sites):
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/
@jeridansky Thanks for the info on Archive Today, but when I clicked on the "gift link" I responded to, it demanded my email in order to read it.
@BruceMirken Hmm. I wonder why you see that and I don't. Gift links with an unlocked_article_code in the URL always work fine for me.
I'm running an ad blocker, but I imagine you are, too — and I don't know why that would make a difference. The gift link works when I click the link both in my iPhone app (Mona) and on the Mastodon website. Safari shows me the article just fine with no email required.
I see I have some old cookies from the NYT, but I haven't had an account there for ages.
@jeridansky Ya got me.
Conny Nasch@BruceMirken @jeridansky I use duckduckgo and do not have to do anything to read the gift link. (Also have no NYT on my pc.)