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Thanks for posting the text. I went to it again and this time instead of saying it was for paid subscribers only, it said I could view the article if I would sign up for a free account. I suppose they randomly pick one or the other approach, or maybe they try to get you to pay for a sub first, then try to get you to go for a free signup to at least get your email address.
I've never seen them use the "paid subscribers only" verbiage except on that bonus content stuff -- maybe it is a bug that you saw that, or maybe the page accidentally loaded a different article somehow.
The "paid subscribers have ad free access" message looks like a paywall if you read it quickly, maybe something like that happened.
Either way most sites I don't like giving an email address, but they have a respectable reason. They didn't always require it, but scrapers kept reposting their work for ad profits, etc.. And for what it's worth I don't get any emails from them.
I copied and pasted the message and it was the same article. If you don't want to believe that, I really don't care.
I believe it. I just don't believe that's the intended behavior.