Let me simplify your life a little

http://www.printfriendly.com/print?source=homepage&url_s=uGG...

The article is not especially pay-walled, from what I can detect, using multiple devices. It seems to just use the typical 10 article cookie variable that all NYT articles usually check.

I'd estimate your current machine is behind some kind of network/web proxy that's browsing with a separate session, on your behalf, with a stale cookie that has reached the free article limit attached to its session.

Maybe you're the victim of an A/B test? That's the only other idea I can imagine.

You may have read all your free articles for the month. The NYT is a paid subscription newspaper but they offer a handful of articles a month for free.

If you enjoy the NYT and read it often, think about subscribing.

...and how do they keep track of how many articles each person read each month? Oh right, by cookies.

There are other ways. Local storage, indexedDB, WebSQL, browser fingerprinting.

Control your cookies, dump your storage, Scriptblocker, uBlock Origin, and Random Agent Spoofer.

Your average user has no idea how to do any of that.

Plenty of them use ad blockers, and if the pressure keeps up they'll figure out much of the rest too. The very environment driving this anti-privacy trend is just educating a generation of consumers, in the same way that the very instant people were able to get away from advertising they did.

Or just open it in incognito mode / private browsing.

Or just subscribe.

(though private mode is the easiest way)

I was speaking more broadly to what we should all be doing, all of the time.