The New York Times now requires about 1/10 of people clicking a gift link like this one to register in order to access the article. You can either:

• Register — you don’t need to pay — but you do need to give up an email address
• Open the gift link in a private browsing window or use Reader mode in your browser
• Use archive.today to skip the paywall entirely. Be aware that archive.today sometimes modifies archived pages, and generally fails to archive complex multimedia content.