If you receive a gift article from a New York Times Subscriber,** you may need to create a New York Times account to read the article**. Gift articles do not count towards the limited number of articles available to non-Subscribers.
If that happens, it looks like this:
This seems to happen to about 1 in 10 US-based non-subscribers who try to use a gift link. I don’t know if the same registration-wall is being applied outside the US. The decision about whether to present a registration-wall appears to be based on a browser fingerprint, so if you encounter the registration dialog once, you always encounter it unless in private browsing mode.
There’s a half-decent chance that the threat of subscribers reducing their link sharing might induce the NYT to change their mind, so I encourage people to send a 150-200 word email to letters@nytimes.com asking them to go back to just letting gift link recipients access the article.
baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Pinning this until I update the sidebar.