22 points by lschueller 2 days ago | 11 comments
- Could someone post an archive? It’s impossible to view this page without a giant cookie pop up asking one to pay or to consent to being tracked. Isn’t this coercion and illegal in the EU?
- https://archive.md/oVJfd
FWiW from an Australian IP using latest Firefox and uBO no cookie pop ups appear, article is straight forward to read.
- Hmm strange. iCloud relay has been consistently causing me to get geolocated in Switzerland. I’m in NYC.
- Ublock Origin's element zapper or picker gets rid of it. Can't seem to reach archive.today/is/whatever sites today.
- I don’t think ubo works on some mobile devices
- Impossible? It works fine with javascript disabled. In fact it works best with javascript disabled.
- http://archive.today/2026.03.23-234733/https://www.heise.de/...
It won't work if you use 1.1.1.1 for DNS. They're blocking it again.
- I can’t believe we’ve allowed it to get so bad.
- > We and our up to 191 partners use cookies and tracking technologies.
And there's no way I could find to reject them all at once, only one by one. No thank you.
- GDPR fines are up to 10 Million Euros or 2% of total global revenue, whichever is higher. Maybe an EU citizen should sue them, since that behavior is listed as a dark pattern in the guidance.
- Anyone can report them for investigation. I forget what the contact email address is but I had to add it to my GDPR compliance page so I know it exists.