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Re:Tell HN: Now Washington Post is asking to turn off Firefo... by Animats on Friday October 12, 2018 @01:00AM (#18199333)
Amusingly, with Mozilla's tracking protection on, Ghostery set to block everything it knows about, Privacy Badger running, private browsing mode, and third party cookies disabled, the Washington Post site not only works, it no longer nags about subscribing.
Re:Tell HN: Now Washington Post is asking to turn off Firefo... by 9712263 on Friday October 12, 2018 @01:30AM (#18199439)
I try it in my firefox and I don't experience this prompt. Possibly because I don't read long enough to trigger the prompt, or ublock origin advanced mode + Privacy Badger + Tracking Protection combo suppressed too aggressively that it never appears. I tried disabling the plugins but cannot reproduce.

Btw, for this kind of prompt, one ublock origin features I found very useful is cosmetic filter. I could specify which CSS element permanently to disable by right click menu. I find it useful when I want to watch a specific Facebook video but that annoying Facebook login prompt keeps bugging and it could be triggered by left clicking anything in the page, including expanding comment sections. Though, it's a cat-and-mouse game, and you never know when the countermeasures doesn't work.