Re: When is fat too fat?

On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 12:32:11 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

On 3/22/2025 12:26 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 11:40:50 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
 

On 3/21/2025 11:19 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 11:48:20 -0400, Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
wrote:
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(you'll need this whole link to get past the paywall)
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https://www.cyclingnews.com/features/lab-tested-40mm-road-tyres-are-faster-for-nearly-everyone-and-heres-why/?utm_term=3F94C1B0-2336-481F-9F48-87A3862079D2&lrh=1e399577e82ec4e44eb4d33bfcaad09d796bd8e1f682e0f7bf32df00ae420a83&utm_campaign=A8C132A5-BD9C-4737-AC90-016639AFEA3E&utm_medium=email&utm_content=42C26C62-AEF4-4540-8653-17C0A3DB0CE6&utm_source=SmartBrief
>
CyclingNews compares the latest 40c offering from Pirelli. It's a long
and well-written article, whether you agree with the findings or not.

>
The above URL ends with too much tracking information.  I trimmed it
off.  Now, it works:
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<https://www.cyclingnews.com/features/lab-tested-40mm-road-tyres-are-faster-for-nearly-everyone-and-heres-why/>
>
Also (seperate issue) notice the greater than and less than symbols
wrapped around the URL.  If you don't want the URL mangled by a
browser line length limitation, add them when posting a URL.

>
I'm still hitting a paywall. I wonder if I've got some offending cookie
preventing my access.
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I'll deal with it later. I'm scheduled up today.

 
I think I know what's happening.  When you first replied to the
original message, your Mozilla Thunderbird browser took the rather
long URL and word wrapped it into 3 lines of gibberish.  When you
retried, the browser is reading the original web server response
instead to getting a fresh copy.  You can either flush the web cache
or force a page refresh in your browser.  I don't know which browser
you're using so I can't offer a specific procedure.  This covers most
browsers:
 
"How to hard refresh your browser and clear your cache"
<https://fabricdigital.co.nz/blog/how-to-hard-refresh-your-browser-and-clear-cache>
 
Note that you want want to ONLY flush the web page cache.  If your web
browser also offers to also clear history, cookies, site setting,
saved info, saved form info, etc, uncheck everything EXCEPT the web
cache and cached files.  Some browsers become confused if the web
cache grows too large.

Aside from our comments, I think Mr Slocumb had it with his
tinyurl suggestion.
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https://tinyurl.com/5n7sapye
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or, without subscriber ID data (I did not get a paywall):
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https://tinyurl.com/mu32edpb

Sigh.  Now, all the aforementioned URL and short links produce the
paywall message because I had tried to view the page more than 5
times.  From the "Join now" box:
"*Read 5 free articles per month without a subscription"

I can usually eliminate that by removing the cyclingnews.com cookies
and resetting the counter.  However, that's not working for me in
Firefox.  So, I try a different method:
Settings -> Cookies and Site Data -> Manage Data -> and type
"cyclingnews.com" into the search box.  It shows 21 cookies belonging
to cyclingnews.com.  I punch "Remove all Shown -> Save Changes" and it
doesn't work. 

So, I switched to Chrome and again deleted any cyclingnews.com
cookies.  The paywall appears again.

I'll play some more later.


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