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Microsoft recently started putting github behind a reddit/twitter/Instagram login wall: comments for open source community projects are truncated unless you log
by cma 5y ago
Microsoft recently started putting github behind a reddit/twitter/Instagram login wall: comments for open source community projects are truncated unless you log in. Maybe related?
- miloignis 5y agoOh wow, that sounds terrible - do you have a link that demonstrates the behavior? Was their HN discussion of it at the time? This is pretty big news that I missed.
- cma 5y agoI'm not seeing it now. I probably misinterpreted the login prompt at the end of a thread or it was an A/B test.
- shrimp_emoji 5y agoI just tested this on the following pages (logged out and then logged in): https://github.com/intellij-rust/intellij-rust/issues/3757 https://github.com/intellij-rust/intellij-rust/issues/3757 https://github.com/webdesus/fs_extra/issues/12 https://github.com/webdesus/fs_extra/issues/12 Comments were not truncated.
- teh_klev 5y agoI'm not signed in and this certainly isn't the case for me (desktop Chrome on Windows 10).
- speedgoose 5y agoMany login walls can be bypassed if you set your user agent to GoogleBot. You may also have to use an IP from Google, which is easier now thanks to GCP.