FWIW, I may have an explanation:
I recently registered for a trial subscription to the FT and the PDFs are gone from the site.
They only have some crappy PDF replica rendered in a complicated and clumsy JS framework, page by page and not downloadable.
I specifically asked a live chat customer support person and they said the PDFs are not available from FT anymore.
I also wrote several emails to
help@ft.com to complain about this and inquire about the whereabouts of the PDFs. PDFs among other things cannot be tracked and the FT or their associates cannot learn what I am interested in etc. No psychological profiling. But … no reply!
(In their crap web rendering of the print pages, which they offer their readers as a substitute for the PDFs, my network monitor caught multiple resource requests and calls to profiling/tracking/ad companies…)
It's blows my mind how the noose is tightening. It's all the more disturbing given that Russia has now burrowed into the very top of the US government. The poison spreads from above and below…