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Spectacles - Anonymous browsing for Quora

• paulgb 14y ago
  I've been a Quora user for over two years. Since I'm normally logged in, didn't realize Quora did this to answers. Now I feel significantly less inclined to contribute content to them for free. Edit: I just pulled up an incognito window and could still see answers. Is it only for certain answers?
  • adam-a 14y ago
    I ran into this a while ago reading something on my phone which wasn't logged in. I think it is only certain answers though. It's funny that Stack Overflow was created explicitly to provide an open access QA site, an alternative to Experts Exchange. Now Quora, who clearly owe a lot to SO, are going back to that closed model. I hope they change their stance on this, it's not a healthy way to run a user generated website.
  • bentlegen 14y ago
    I think it happens if you're coming from a search engine.
  • apawloski 14y ago
    Incognito does not delete any data (eg cookies) you accumulated from "regular" windows. It only deletes data collected while you were incognito. So it's likely Quora still recognized you as logged in.
    • paulgb 14y ago
      It doesn't delete the cookies, but it doesn't send them to servers when accessed from the incognito window. That's why when you open an incognito window you're not logged into any sites.