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Let \(f\) run over primitive forms of weight 2 for \(\Gamma _0(q)\), and for a Dirichlet character \(\chi \) let \(L(f\cdot \chi ,s)\) be the corresponding twisted \(L\)-function. The main result is that given three distinct primitive characters \(\chi _1\), \(\chi _2\), \(\chi _3\) of square-free conductors \(D_1\), \(D_2\), \(D_3\) such that \(\chi _1^2\), \(\chi _2 ^2\), \(\chi _3^2\) remain primitive with the same moduli, the product \(L(f\cdot \chi _1, 1/2)L(f\cdot \chi _2, 1/2)L(f\cdot \chi _3, 1/2)\) is non-zero for a positive proportion of the forms when \(q\) goes to infinity through the set of prime numbers. An analogous result on certain products of two \(L\)-functions was recently obtained by \textit{E. Kowalski}, \textit{P. Michel} and \textit{J. VanderKam} [Invent. Math. 142, 95--151 (2000; Zbl 1054.11026)], and the present work extends the mollification method of that paper. An application to elliptic curves is given: there exists quotients of the Jacobian \(J_0(q)\) of large dimension satisfying the conjecture of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer over cyclic number fields of degree less than 5.