Under Seattle, a Big Object Blocks Bertha. What Is It?

Re:Under Seattle, a Big Object Blocks Bertha. What Is It? by nmc on Friday December 20, 2013 @02:04AM (#6940323)

I am the only one seeing the paywall?

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Re:Under Seattle, a Big Object Blocks Bertha. What Is It? by yannk on Friday December 20, 2013 @03:36AM (#6940553)

Headline: "Giant mystery object turned out being a banal paywall"

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Re:Under Seattle, a Big Object Blocks Bertha. What Is It? by robert-wallis on Friday December 20, 2013 @05:57AM (#6940850)

Don't worry, it's just linkbait. The article is two full pages of wild guesses on what they think is blocking it.

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Re:Under Seattle, a Big Object Blocks Bertha. What Is It? by adamnemecek on Friday December 20, 2013 @02:58AM (#6940465)

Open it in private browsing mode.

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Re:Under Seattle, a Big Object Blocks Bertha. What Is It? by nmc on Friday December 20, 2013 @03:14AM (#6940509)

Oh, 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.

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Re:Under Seattle, a Big Object Blocks Bertha. What Is It? by adamnemecek on Friday December 20, 2013 @03:23AM (#6940532)

I'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.

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