&gt; it feels stupid to pay for not knowing how to use the incognito window<p>That&#x27;s not what you&#x27;re paying for.  You&#x27;re paying journalists to research and fact check important news stories, and for developers to build interesting and novel ways to display content, and about a million other things that I&#x27;m not going to list here.  It&#x27;s one thing to get around the paywall because you don&#x27;t read NYT often or don&#x27;t have the money and wouldn&#x27;t pay anyway, but if you&#x27;ve got the means to pay then you probably should.<p>And before someone says something to the extent of &quot;the NYT is a rag, they print misinformation all the time!&quot; I&#x27;ll preemptively say that every writer has their own internal biases and you should ready multiple news sources if you want to distill some semblance of the &quot;truth.&quot;  I don&#x27;t think there&#x27;s any denying that NYT is at the very least in the upper tier of news organizations today.