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Comment by egberts1 | Hacker News Reader

Eh, still have to login.

I don't even get that far but get a blank page except for: "Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker." They're doing a pretty good job of minimizing their traffic.

New York Times 10-Year Online Subscriber Growth

• 2016: Ended with approximately 1.6 million paid digital-only subscriptions.

• 2018: Crossed the 3.3 million digital subscriber mark.

• 2020: Accelerated past 5 million digital subscribers, fueled by intense news cycles (the U.S. election and COVID-19 pandemic).

• 2022: Surpassed 8.8 million total subscribers after shifting reporting metrics from individual product subscriptions to total unique subscribers and acquiring The Athletic.

• 2024: Reached over 10.8 million total subscribers by year-end.

• 2025: Closed the year with 12.78 million total subscribers, adding 1.4 million net digital subscribers over the 12-month period.

• Mid-2026: Reached 13.35 million total subscribers (including ~12.8 million digital-only subscribers), staying on track for a stated goal of 15 million subscribers by the end of 2027

Source: https://www.google.com/search?q=new+york+times+subscription+...

That didn't pass the sniff test for me, and yeah it's misleading. Not on your part, but theirs - probably to try to appeal to advertisers. See the fine print on their numbers here. [1] Rather than copy-paste a bunch of stuff ctrl+f there for "The Company includes our digital and print products and related businesses, including:". Those numbers are an opaquely combined total across a whole slew of different services, brands, companies, and promotions. Suffice to say they're certainly calculating it in the way that will yield the largest number that's legally defensible.

[1] - https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/71691/00000716912300...

I can only get you so far...

No,

You could have gotten this link: https://archive.is/88rlJ

(which is currently also the top link)

Failure acknowledged. The fact I pay $360/year to the Times for a subscription enabling me to provide these gift links here at no charge does NOT excuse me from my inability to have prevented the Times from requiring a log-in to read them.

FunFact: The Times instituted this requirement to prevent AI/LLM from scraping and stealing its content. Clearly it was remiss.

Bypass Paywalls Clean on Quetta works fine.

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