The Boston Globe website is closing off a hole in its paywall by preventing visitors who aren't logged in from reading articles in a browser's private mode.
"You're using a browser set to private or incognito mode" is the message given to BostonGlobe.com visitors who click on articles in private mode. "To continue reading articles in this mode, please log in to your Globe account." People who aren't already Globe subscribers are urged to subscribe.
Like other news sites, the Globe limits the number of articles people can read without a subscription. Until the recent change, Globe website visitors could read more articles for free by switching to private or incognito mode.
Source: ArsTechnica
(Score: 4, Insightful) by kaszz on Sunday May 21 2017, @04:56PM
Yeah, obviously the sandbox is flawed. Let them save or set whatever they want. It will be gone anyway later. As for browser trust. It's likely a convenience thing. It works good enough. Do bad enough and it goes the Internet Exploder v6.0 way. But there is a way to not only sandbox a specific visit but sandbox it all by running the whole thing inside a VM box which is reset as often as needed.