A user reported accessing Newspapers.com via proxy and logging in to their account there. They previously had a login via this account before we moved to proxy. When trying to create a clipping, they receive an error message "Your account is not allowed to create a clipping at this time."
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Summary: User failed to toss cookies, all is fine now.
Details: Oddly, I was able to clip yesterday with the Newspapers.com account I have used previously for a few years. I'm not sure what changed as previously I had tried it with a private window. Just now I realized that Firefox's private window has access to my cookies. If I'm logged in to WP and then open a private window in Firefox and go to WP, then I'm logged in! I'm fairly certain that this was not the case for me when I tried it before asking about this issue, perhaps I was logged out when I opened the private window. At the time, I was able to replicate the issue under Firefox and Safari, though I did not attempt to clear my cookies under Safari.
So, I'm all set, this could be closed.
BTW - it would be helpful if the newspapers.com entry on https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/users/my_library/ had a link to the talk page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Newspapers.com
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Oh, OK, thanks! Let us know if the issue returns.
BTW - it would be helpful if the newspapers.com entry on https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/users/my_library/ had a link to the talk page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Newspapers.com
The library is used by editors from many projects so I'm not sure sending them to enwiki is necessarily the best solution, but I agree this talk page is somewhat orphaned now so it would be nice to make it more obvious.