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How does outline work? how do they get around the login feature

If they told you that, the target sites would find a way to block it. Obscurity is just another weapon in this advertising-and-bloat-blocking arms race.

Actually it's hard to block them, since they just need to cache every new article once, and you can't block a user just coz he accessed every new article.

Off-topic: On Safari (both iOS and macOS), outline never works for me. Has anyone observed this? (on iOS, pressing the button does nothing - the front-page with the box to enter the URL remains there. On macOS, it says "Something went wrong. We're sorry. This page failed to Outline.")

Is it because I use private browsing by default?

EDIT: Private browsing is not the culprit. Geo-restrictions maybe? Or because I use a VPN?

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