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God, I wish someone added Quora to that list. After you read the first article, Quora masks all its content and forces you down the throat to sign up or sign in
by neya 8y ago
God, I wish someone added Quora to that list. After you read the first article, Quora masks all its content and forces you down the throat to sign up or sign in, pretending to be part of an age verification process (irrespective of the topic).
I remember when this happened - I was so pissed off that I made an add-on called "fuck quora" that will simply reset their cookies to have unlimited reading possible without signing in. Will be happy to open source if the need be :)
- Fnoord 8y agoPlease do! Though wouldn't it work to just never accept the cookie at all? I got very pissed off at Quora for the same reason, and made an account just to read (knowing full well they'd use it for profiling).
- bo1024 8y agoNot sure about Quora, but I've noticed that many sites start you off with a big "Accept and Continue" popup and set cookies when you accept. So if you deny cookies, you can't get past the popup (it just refreshes).
- Fnoord 8y agoIIRC you can read one article for free on Quora. But yes, that accept and continue is common and annoying.
- isostatic 8y agoPrivate mode works fine with quora
- mrhappyunhappy 8y agoYep. They even try to make them clever by showing actual cookies or people getting slapped by a cookie. Even use words GOT IT to accept terms.
- pkkm 8y agoYou can add ?share=1 to the URL to unblock Quora.
- lugg 8y agoBlocking them from search results is far more effective. Quora results are mostly saturated with thinly veiled spam now anyway. Google: how to use quora for traffic how to use quora for marketing how to use quora for SEO The "hack" is well known and incredibly over exploited.
- driverdan 8y agoMy solution is to avoid Quora links. They don't have any content you can't find elsewhere.