In article , Axel Berger
wrote:

you're ripping them off because you get 10 free articles per month
and for more than that, you're supposed to pay.
as i said, there are ways around that, but by doing so, you're
getting something for free to which you are not entitled.

The honest straightforward way to do that is logging in with credentials
and having them count the number of articles on their server.

that's one way. it's not the only way.

it's also a hassle for those who are under the 10 article limit.

the point of the 10 article limit is to provide enough of a sample to
entice people to sign up. locking it down will drive people away.

What they
actually seem to be doing is snooping and hiding stuff on your computer
to be shared with all kinds of other intruders they allow to run their
malicious programs on your machine.

nonsense, but even if that were true, you're arguing *for* a dedicated
app because an app is sandboxed and nothing else can get at it nor can
it get at anything else.

Only first party cookies, mostly
deleted at the end of session with some exceprtions and no scripts, and
if those only first party scripts, none by foreign and external snoopers
is the sensible and standard configuration.

The way they do,it, they also quite nonsensically allow ten article per
machine used, so home, work, tablet and phone make 40 for many users.
Conversely it is only ten for all users sharing a machine together. Any
sense in that? Thought not.

there's a lot of sense to what they're doing because it's hassle-free
for those who don't want to subscribe with an enticement to subscribe
once they reach the limit.

simple concept.

But non-simple, sneaky, and underhand implementation.

nonsense.