The two things are not directly dependent: for instance, Facebook allows you to connect to your account through Tor. You still have a separate individual authentication (email & password, 2FA) once the connection is established. I believe I have a paying NYT account so I might try if you are interested.
It’s possible that Tor makes it harder to enforce the rule that you can’t read more than X articles per month (which I believe is enforced using cookies and your IP address) but at this early stage, I’m not sure that’s key: people who know how to use Tor generally can easily go around that limitation on https.
If too many people use that loophole to read without a subscription, that means NYTimes would have been instrumental in making Tor mainstream. That would be a major achievement in itself. Enforcing similar consumption limits through Tor would probably be rather experimental, but sounds hardly difficult (especially with the goodwill NYTimes would have most likely gained from Tor developers & supporters).
> It’s possible that Tor makes it harder to enforce the rule that you can’t read more than X articles per month (which I believe is enforced using cookies and your IP address) but at this early stage, I’m not sure that’s key: people who know how to use Tor generally can easily go around that limitation on https.
Their current X (which I think is 10) articles per month limit is enforced via cookies. If you're like me and have your browser set to automatically clear all cookies and persistent state on close, you never even notice it exists.
It’s possible that Tor makes it harder to enforce the rule that you can’t read more than X articles per month (which I believe is enforced using cookies and your IP address) but at this early stage, I’m not sure that’s key: people who know how to use Tor generally can easily go around that limitation on https.
If too many people use that loophole to read without a subscription, that means NYTimes would have been instrumental in making Tor mainstream. That would be a major achievement in itself. Enforcing similar consumption limits through Tor would probably be rather experimental, but sounds hardly difficult (especially with the goodwill NYTimes would have most likely gained from Tor developers & supporters).