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I am the only one seeing the paywall?
by nmc 13y ago
I am the only one seeing the paywall?
- adamnemecek 13y agoOpen it in private browsing mode.
- nmc 13y agoOh, I had never tried the "privacy mode" of Firefox! Thanks for the heads up! However why is this working? I already had disabled JS, so the only thing I can think of is my location (Europe), but "privacy mode" will not prevent anyone from seeing my IP, so... wtf? EDIT: cookies, of course! I had forgotten I already read the NYT recently. Thanks! EDIT': confirmed by disabling "privacy mode" again, deleting cookies did it.
- adamnemecek 13y agoI'm pretty sure that it's based on cookies. They let you read some number of articles per month for free and once you hit that number, they show the paywall.
- yannk 13y agoHeadline: "Giant mystery object turned out being a banal paywall"
- robert-wallis 13y agoDon't worry, it's just linkbait. The article is two full pages of wild guesses on what they think is blocking it.