[knd775]

They've been using soft paywalls which allow people to read a certain number of articles per month for free. To prevent users from simply using incognito mode to pretend every visit is their first visit, publishers started detecting incognito mode and blocking them from reading articles using it (without signing in).

[tjoff]

Which was quite frustrating for us that only ever surf in incognito.

Now we'll see what their response is, probably something moronic as 5 views per IP.

Better to just require an account straight up. Then there is no point for anyone to link to them and we will get rid of the whole "will I be able to read this link mess".