<p>I notice that the tracking of the articles you’ve read is not related to your log in. Since logging out 2 days ago, they nevertheless must be tracking my IP address, and since yesterday they have said that I have exhausted my articles for the month. </p>
<p>Yes, I know: it’s only a dollar. I’m just annoyed, that’s all. One more way to be nickled-and-dimed to death these days. I do read more than 20 NYT articles per month!</p>
<p>I have 3-4 IP addresses, so it has never been an issue for me yet. And the best articles are usually re-printed by my local paper and Yahoo News.</p>
<p>Have you tried clearing cookies and browsing history? It works great for me on another website which is free but nonetheless asks for registration and then relentessly sends spam. I search for relevant articles on that site using IE, then copy the link into my Firefox, read, clear cookies, repeat the cycle. :)</p>
<p>Thanks for that suggestion, BB. I’m not much of an IT expert, but I’ll try what you suggest. I thought IP addresses were specific to each computer unit. (I went to my desktop just to experiment; I was able to access from there, but that’s not surprising since I guess it would have a diff. IP address?)</p>
<p>I think I can’t get Safari or Firefox on my laptop, but I get Firefox, Safari, & IE on the desktop (which I’m sharing with a daughter right now, hence the inconvenience).</p>
<p>Lots of major news stories are not NYT in origin, but I read a lot that’s specific to the Times, such as from the arts, education, and opinion sections.</p>
<p>If the website simply looks for cookies, the suggested trick will work (like it works with the stupid site I need to monitor for work-related purposes). If it does track your IP address through a more sophisticated method, cookie clearing will not help.</p>
<p>I really do not mind paying for newspaper subscriptions (still get the paper version of our local paper!), it is the fact that I need to log in and enter yet another password that irritates me (just like taxes - I do not mind payng them, but I hate the hassle of filling out the returns!).</p>
<p>I have a weekend subscription to the paper edition, so now I get weekdays online for free. I don’t see why everyone should have access for free to everything - it costs a huge amount of money to put out a quality paper and ads don’t pay for it. Having multiple IP addresses to get around the rules is dishonest, cheating and hurts us all in the long run.</p>
<p>mathmom, there is nothing dishonest about having multiple IP addresses - it is just a matter of fact. While I can connect my iPhone and blackberry to the house WiFi and have them use the same IP address as my other home computers connected to the same router, I cannot do this on the bus. Ditto for my work computers. 
I eat lunch in my cube reading papers online because our kitchen is too tiny to accomodate the entire company. Should I only read the paper at home?</p>
<p>I don’t mind if you use multiple IP addresses, but if the total number of articles you read is over the minimum you should be paying with one of them. That’s the honest thing to do.</p>
<p>NYTimes should do the same thing USPS and other places hit hard by lack of ad revenue did: cut costs. Online editions are fully supported by ads.</p>
<p>If they let me read 20 articles per IP address as their rule, I do not see a problem with reading more than 20 articles. I pay for my IP addresses, I do not steal my neighbor’s WIFi just to read NYTimes. Although I could - it is not password-protected. :)</p>
<p>I would gladly pay for reading the NY Times online. I do get it free due to my delivery subscription. I also read the Guardian online, which is still free, but won’t mind it if it switches to a paywall.</p>
<p>My father have home delivery of the NYT in Atlanta and has shared his digital login with us. His login was for family members, and we are family ;)</p>
<p>OK, mathmom. You win. You’ve made me feel sufficiently guilty.</p>
<p>P.S. I cannot receive even a weekend subscription at my house, due to it being in such a high-traffic environment with high public access and frequent lifting of newspapers from porches & lawns. This has been a chronic problem. I have wanted to subscribe to the Sunday paper edition for years, but essentially have decided it was a waste of money for this reason.</p>
<p>^That’s aggravating. I still really prefer getting a paper edition, but it’s nice that we have access online since our weekend paper no longer arrives as early as it used to.</p>
<p>It’s true that the NYTs was pretty vague about who the other family members could be. I think it’s a good deal.</p>
<p>Digital NY Times offers “sponsored” subscriptions to people who register with home addresses in certain high income zip codes. </p>
<p>Sponsored in this case means that the sponsoring advertiser, like a car maker, has category exclusivity.</p>
<p>Don’t know the current status of that program.</p>
<p>They don’t track by IP address or login. They put a cookie on whatever computer you’re using.</p>
<p>Further comment: I have a Kindle. I <em>love</em> reading the Sunday NYT on it. Part of what I love is that, if I download it that day, it costs only 99 cents. I also love it that I have no paper to recycle when I’m done.</p>
<p>I am thinking of dropping my local newspaper subscription and switch to digital NYTimes so I can read it on my Ipad. But then I feel guilty since I have bought my local paper forever, even though the paper is getting thinner, the cost higher and it mostly recycles national news from other sources. Sigh… I should subscribe to both and assuage my guilt since I love NY Times in depth articles. I mean, I “pay” for NPR even though it’s free… Support the ones you love or they may not be around later…</p>
<p>dmd, if that is true and they are not using some sort of a super cookie, then it is a very lame paywall. I clear my browser history and cookies several times a day, and many other people do (and absolutely should).</p>
<p>[Kindle</a> Will Bypass New York Times Paywall | PCWorld](<a href=“http://www.pcworld.com/article/223613/kindle_will_bypass_new_york_times_paywall.html]Kindle”>Kindle Will Bypass New York Times Paywall | PCWorld)</p>
<p>ccreader, our local Times has free online edition (I do like the paper version to go with my Sunday coffee), and I reward them by occasionally clicking on an ad or two. I collect black and white sections of the newspaper and use it in my garden as weed shield under winter mulch.</p>
<p>No. I thought they tracked by IP addy too and I have several also. I also found out if you C&P a headline in Google the article comes up in the search and doesn’t get counted in your 20 times. Also the same thing if you click on a NYT link someone has posted to your fb wall. </p>
<p>If it’s done by cookies couldn’t one just clear them when you get near 20? They give a warning when you only have 5 free articles left.</p>
<p>I read articles on my computer, and sometimes on my mobile device, realized that it seemed there were two buckets based on two devices. wasn’t something I was trying to do…thought it was based on log in? anyway, no I personally skip over to other news sources if I reach my limit, just not choosing to spend money on internet news sources.</p>
<p>Yep, you can go to the list of cookies on your computer and delete the one that says NYTimes. It is that easy. But of course, there’s the guilt factor. (How do I know these things? Well, I leave that to your imagination, all the way around. Note that I pay for the NYT on Sundays and most Tuesdays–which is still less than a $20/month subscription.)</p>