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Stephanie, and all -- the NYT has in the last few days started using a truly obnoxious click-tracking routine that adds all that not needed stuff at the end of the url -- the solution is to simply copy and paste in the whole mess of a url, then delete everyting beginning with the "?" immediately following the ".html" that is the end of the actual direct url itself -- with that one at the end of the post to which I'm replying:

the whole url, with the click-track stuff appended to the actual direct url;

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/30/opinion/feel-the-math.html?ribbon-ad-idx=2&src=recg&mabReward=CTM&module=Ribbon&version=origin®ion=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Recommended&pgtype=article

cleaned up, nice and tidy, and working:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/30/opinion/feel-the-math.html

to note, some other NYT urls, blog links and such, end without that final ".html", but instead with a word or number with a final "/" -- the key again is that "?" -- find it at the end of the basic clean url, usually pretty easy to spot, and delete it and all which follows it

this approach also works in cleaning up urls from many other sites -- almost always fine, leaving a tidier working link, to spot a "?" in a url and delete it and whatever follows it from the url

and just to mention, there's also a privacy aspect to this -- the extra click-track type stuff appended by many sites to their basic direct urls beginning with that "?" can and often does include information that can track back to the computer/device on which the given web page was viewed and from which its url was copied