Google Maps article / NYT

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/m...ask-where.html?pagewanted=7&_r=0&ref=magazine

 

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Why would you post a link to page 7 of 8?

<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/m...sk-where.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=magazine>

 

Having read the whole article from the beginning I realised why. It's
because it is the only really interesting page for Apple users as it makes
some very useful and valid points.

 

That's why posting accompanying text with links is the logical thing to
do, instead of "speaking in links".

 

I got puzzled by this. As I read the article, I found myself carried to
the last page at one point, and ended up re-reading the same page twice
(I think there are navigation bugs).

So when I saw this message, I said to myself "that was quick, someone
already commented on my post" and figuring my URL had suffered from some
big that lead to the wrong page. Only to realise that Allan Browne had
beat me to the article and the URL error was from his post a couple days
ago

(Mine was made in the phone group, not in the systems group)

 

It's at that point I thought I'd post it, but forgot to strip the page
reference.

 

I typically post a quote from an article along with the link. Yesterday
I simply posted the link - and meant it to be to the first page. ( I
really wish news sites would not break stories into pages)

 

Ditto, but it is because of ad(vertisemtent)s. Anyways, NYT articles do
have single page links if you look carefully. An example with yours:
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/m...gewanted=1&_r=2&ref=magazine&&pagewanted=all>
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I know Alan knows this, but for those who don't, in references like the
one above from the Times, you can delete everything starting with the
'?' through the end of the link and always get to the first page. It
also makes the link shorter and more manageable. The only exceptions are
links where the terms after the '?' are references to a database where
an item is looked up, rather than a laundry list of URLs.

 

Note that with paywalled newspapers, there are refereres which bypass
the paywall (or don't increase number of articles read). For instance,
if you click on a link from certain social media, the article won't
count against your monthly free articles quota.

However, in many circumstances, such a logic may be embedded in teh
"referer:" HTTP request field and not in the actual URL.

 

a lot of paywalls let you through if there's a google referrer.

 

My experience with the Times is that 'clean' links (nothing from the '?'
on) do not seem to register against the quota. Accessing the same
seemingly clean link from within the paper's web page adds '?' and
account information from cookies on your machine which keep track of
your quota.