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Comment by burntwater | Hacker News Reader

Quora permanently lost me several years ago when they suddenly forced me to select five categories of interest before I could continue to the question I was interested in.

Forcing me to do something I have no interest in and will never make use of is a good way to alienate me.

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Quora requires registration to simply read it.

That's at least going to lose them viewers who don't want to bother.

Or multiple incognito/private windows :P

Yep, for awhile I didn't even register; I used some trick (I forget what it was) to get around that.

Eventually I did register. And then the above requirement came, and that was the final nail in the coffin.

Adding share=1 to the query string allows unregistered viewing.

Such a strange decision by quora. No wonder they're so irrelevant.

Iirc you can get around this by appending ?share=1

The "Quora Share" add-on for Firefox will automatically add the "?share=1" parameter for you:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/quora-share/

Pinterest is probably the worst offender for that. You get progressively blocked the more you try to read.

i stopped using them because of that, and i even have an account; i just can't be bothered logging in to it everywhere.

In my experience, blocking cookies and/or using incognito mode works to block off their solicitations. Now if only someone would find a solution for Scribd..

The "block element" feature of muBlock allows you to block the popup that asks you to register. Just right-click on the popup, use "Block element", highlight the popup, click "Create", and do the same for the opaque background.

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