Just search for the headline on google, and click through that way. No registration.

> Just search for the headline on google, and click through that way. No registration.

No, that's not guaranteed to work. It's a cookie issue.

I have have never registered at nytimes and have seldom been able to read its articles, no matter how I approach the site. Until a few experiments today, that is.

I reject all cookies by default. NYTimes confronts me with the registration page when I have cookies disabled. I discovered today that if I go ahead and allow cookies from www.nytimes.com, I can read the article without registering. Allowing for session does the trick; don't store the cookie indefinitely. And accepting cookies from wt.o.nytimes.com and up.nytimes.com is not necessary to read the article.

metafilter.com gets around this by just telling all of its members to use the "metafilter46/metafilter" account.

Honestly, NYT is one of the few places where I was happy to sign up. They make a ton of content available online, and if they want me to jump through their one small hoop to read it, that's not a huge deal to me.

Plus, you only login when your cookies expire, it's pretty infrequent.

What was the old login.. It used to be pretty standard fare on websites with free registration.

cyberpunk/cyberpunk ? cypherpunk/cypherpunk ?

maybe plural?

bugmenot

Bugmenot Firefox plugin, so on any login form on the web you can right-click and select "Login with Bugmenot": https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6349

I just use the bookmarklet to open a new window displaying the login information.