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Starson17 · 03-30-2011, 04:37 PM

Can anyone report on the effect of the NYT paywall on the Calibre recipe? I don't subscribe, don't use the recipe and don't have a user/pass for the site, but I'm curious.

I spent some time trying to trigger the paywall by accessing about 45 articles directly from the NYT site, but never saw a restriction. I know the paywall intentionally has lots of holes, and I presume my default cookie/script blocking was somehow allowing full access, but I wondered what others were seeing and whether the paywall had affected the builtin recipe.

03-30-2011, 04:37 PM	#1
Starson17 Wizard Posts: 4,004 Karma: 177841 Join Date: Dec 2009 Device: WinMo: IPAQ; Android: HTC HD2, Archos 7o; Java:Gravity T	New York Times Paywall? Can anyone report on the effect of the NYT paywall on the Calibre recipe? I don't subscribe, don't use the recipe and don't have a user/pass for the site, but I'm curious. I spent some time trying to trigger the paywall by accessing about 45 articles directly from the NYT site, but never saw a restriction. I know the paywall intentionally has lots of holes, and I presume my default cookie/script blocking was somehow allowing full access, but I wondered what others were seeing and whether the paywall had affected the builtin recipe.