That’s pretty funny. Users of NYT are sending request headers with sixteen kilobytes of tracking data. Maybe that’s the real problem eh?
I wonder which news website has the largest amount of trackers. If I let the CNN home page sit open in chrome, I can come back an hour later and find thousands of requests blocked by uBlock.
How do you see this? What tools in the browser?
And btw it’s not free; there is a paywall and you can subscribe to the NYT.
You used to have to just be afraid of lock-in, which I don’t think is as big an issue as it sometimes seems.
But with Google, you’re not only locked in but might be LOCKED OUT when they kill your product.
(Sorry if this is off-topic)
In addition to not being really appropriate for nytimes.com, I'm guessing that publishing content there brings along a lot of extra cruft that is probably not necessary for a post like this (advertising, paywall system, isolating it from the "real" NYTimes content, etc.). Easier to just throw it up on Medium and call it a day.
Our CTO made our first post to Medium explaining the move: https://open.nytimes.com/introducing-the-new-open-blog-23eba...
It's very easy for me to see something like blog.newyorktimes.com with a similar design / community philosophy as Medium, but would that somehow cheapen the experience for NYT readers? Or does NYT just not see itself as a "hip tech company" like Medium? I have endless questions about this, haha.
It seems to me like there's a lot of unstated assumptions hiding in "not appropriate for nytimes.com". Some things mentioned include -- "advertising, paywall system, isolating it from the "real" NYTimes content, etc.". This is absolutely baffling to me! I would be much more inclined to read regular NYT content were it not for these things.
No interruptions of services?
Or just that people could still log in all the time?
I can't imagine what the purpose would be of capturing session data for each logged in user and transferring that over... I wouldn't even expect that of a fortune 500 company moving platforms.
If that is what they did, it warrants a post on its own.
Because it implies that nobody's running session went "down".
That's much harder because otherwise you'd just start a new service parallel to the other one, and flip a switch that directs all new logins to the new service.
You can upload .puz files or let it download from NYT with your subscription, then share the link with friends.
(Web only for now, sorry.)
