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There are still sites doing this. Bloomberg is one I can think of, since I've deleted my cookies (and other local storage) for that site more than once, with su

• ziml77 6y ago
  I highly doubt Bloomberg cares enough. They make their money selling terminal subscriptions and data feeds for obscene amounts.
  • Symbiote 6y ago
    Sites are gradually tightening up on workarounds like clearing cookies. Simply opening Bloomberg nwes in a private tab now fails (I think it's a bug that the site can detect a private tab is used).
    • toyg 6y ago
      Others are actually getting looser though, because they fear losing google juice. I know of a massive European newspaper that just leaves the entire content of paywalled items simply hidden in the DOM.
    • bloak 6y ago
      It worked for me just now, with Chrome. If you're on Linux, have you tried `mkdir /tmp/t234 && HOME=/tmp/t234 firefox` or creating a new local user and logging on as that user? It would be interesting to know why your private tab isn't working.
      • tom_mellior 6y ago
        What did you try on Bloomberg? Opening bloomberg.com and clicking at the biggest, most central story shows me the whole story in full, both in Firefox and in Chrome in private mode. But clicking a random story in the sidebar (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-27/saudi-arabia-sends-blue-ammonia-to-japan-in-world-first-shipment https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-27/saudi-ara...) only gets me an abbreviated version in both browsers. Interestingly, it even customizes the message: "You're in private mode." in Firefox, "You're browsing incognito." in Chromium.