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> Reuters.com will remain free for a preview period, but will require users to register after five stories. Yeah, how do they know you viewed 5 stories? Block

by dheera 6y ago

> Reuters.com will remain free for a preview period, but will require users to register after five stories. Yeah, how do they know you viewed 5 stories? Block cookies or clear cookies on exit and they have basically no way of knowing. Use an VPN to the EU and they have to comply with GDPR as well so they can't fingerprint you. (Or use AMP if they offer it. Sometimes that helps circumvent paywalls.)

EMM_386 6y ago
> Yeah, how do they know you viewed 5 stories? Block cookies or clear cookies on exit and they have basically no way of knowing. Require a login to view the server-rendered page? Use browser fingerprinting? There are ways beyond clients clearing cookies to have the server render a page.
listenallyall 6y ago
Or, just don't be a dick. You can easily, and legally, leave a restaurant without leaving a tip -- but most people don't because they feel it is appropriate to support the waitstaff financially. It's not hard to sneak into the back door of a movie theater, but most people don't because they realize it's the same as stealing.
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