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Comment by klodolph | Hacker News Reader

In other news, Quora doesn't blur out the second answer and ask for you to log in?

Because the submitter added ?share=1 to the link

edit: I personally use https://github.com/sindresorhus/quora-unblocker in Chrome to do this for me so I don't have to think about it. I also made https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/quora-share/ to do the same thing in FF.

Interesting. Removing the ?share=1 has no effect if you've already visited the site, but opening the plain URI in another browser blurs the answer as usual. It must use cookies.

> Because the submitter added ?share=1 to the link

That was us. Maybe we should make the software do it?

I wonder if sama has seen this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4503910

I think that's a great idea.

Interesting I just close the tab.

In other news is anyone else still put off by the site even when it isn't all blurred? Its kinda weird I still get a gut rench feeling looking at their logo. They got a ways to go I guess.

More seriously, thanks, sometimes they are useful and the share hack will come in handy.

I definitely dislike the blurred answers scheme. I think I even had Quora blocked from my searches when that was possible (without a plugin). Sometimes, though, they look like the only hit likely to provide useful info to a question I'm really interested in at the moment, so I eventually gave in and just removed the friction of reading the site by installing/making plugins for it.

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