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Try https://www.nytimes.com/section/todayspaper, should be ad free for subscribers (it's a closer approximation to the actual print version)

I would also like to recommend https://app.nytimes.com/ , which is a different approach to the same content.

The Today's Paper link is also a good way to scrape for data analysis (the API isn't great), such as this piece I did looking at their coverage over a decade:

The deaths that are most covered are a tiny fraction (<1%) of the way we die

https://www.nemil.com/s/part3-horror-films.html

This was my experience with The Times in the UK plus equally difficult to unsubscribe.

If you use Revolut to sign up with a virtual card you can just disable the card if you want to unsubscribe and they're difficult about it

Yeah that's a tough one for me.

I hate it too, it seems "off" with the rest of the internet. But on the other hand, print subscriptions have always included ads too, so not really sure what's right.