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Re:MIT severs ties to company promoting fatal brain uploading by Raphmedia on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @02:49PM (#16747857)
That's so stupid. There's nothing stopping anyone from browsing 3 articles and then clear the cookies...
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Re:MIT severs ties to company promoting fatal brain uploading by m-p-3 on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @08:51PM (#16750897)
What's even more stupid is that it's even possible to detect you're browsing incognito.

The server should never be able to know.

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Re:MIT severs ties to company promoting fatal brain uploading by Raphmedia on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @04:32PM (#16758743)
Probably a bunch of front-end checks to see if cookies are enabled, etc., etc., roughly giving them a clue that it is in incognito.
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