Vox Media’s The Verge appears to be in an arms race against people who are privacy conscious:

1) First, tracks you with 6,783 trusted partners
2) Starts to fade out their articles if you’re not logged in
3) Now they’ve full on cropped it, asking for an account

Yo, I’d even let you have advertisements if you STOPPED TRACKING ME.

Guess that’s going in the bin. I appreciated the editorial snark but your marketers have wrecked ya.