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As Hopes Rise for Gaza Cease-Fire, Conditions There Have Worsened (www.nytimes.com)

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["Humanitarian crisis"? Genocide is a more accurate description]

[gift article - link can be shared. Expires in 30 days.]
[Bias alert - #NYT usually favors Israel]

By Aryn Baker and Abu Bakr Bashir
Dec. 28, 2024, 5:07 a.m. ET

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’m not a fan of “gift” links.

They’re not gifts; they’re a marketing technique. Their purpose is to funnel people into buying subscriptions.
They are tracking URLs by design. The "unlocked_article_code=XXXXXX" attribute is tied back to the subscriber.

[–] pete_link@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, they are a marketing technique, but I don't know of any other legal way to share them. Please give me any ideas you may have. Thanks.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

For sites with soft paywalls like the NYT, I use the normal URL, and put a paywall bypass URL in the body of the post, for the convenience of those with browsers that don’t have a paywall bypass plugin.