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There’s lots of newspaper sites in the US, that do this. They’ll be like “wanna use private browsing, make an account, or go visit from normal browsing.” Idk why they do it but they do. Apparently there are discrepancies in the way browsers handle persistent storage features between private and non-private browsing that allow for detection

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KillerTofu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
12ft.io

I use this to deal with paywalled articles.

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- Scoopta@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  This comment needs more upvotes…I did not know this was a thing and I’ll try to remember it next time I hit a wall
  
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  - KillerTofu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Bigger walls, bigger ladders!!!
    
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sukhmel@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’d guess they just want to keep track of what you read and how many articles. You still can wipe that information from your browser but private browsing makes it more convenient so they ban it

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