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Please, stop linking to Techcrunch on HN if you respect privacy. For those in located Europe you have to go through a disrespective process to read a story.

• mpweiher 8y ago
  With my JS blocker in-place and Reader View, it's actually fine :-)
  • randcraw 8y ago
    That'd be my thought too. Does this difficulty persist when you employ Ublock Origin, Privacy Badger, Ghostery, etc? And a browser that doesn't override the user's wishes, like Firefox or Opera? Without defenses like these, for example, reuters.com is intolerably spammy. But with them it's a delight. Same goes for TechCrunch.
• hartator 8y ago
  Disrespective process?
  • joering2 8y ago
    Try it through europe vpn. Long list of many pages of third party sharing leeches and dark ui techniques (you only see accept button and have to click on the non underlined normal looking text to see the list of oartners; no “select/deselect all” button means you have to click off each checkbox)
    • JumpCrisscross 8y ago
      > Long list of many pages of third party sharing Aren't they required to do this by European law?
      • achamayou 8y ago
        No, this is the most hostile thing they can get away with, but they are absolutely not required to make it as painful for you as possible.
        • swift532 8y ago
          If you have to opt out of one option at a time, it is against the law. According to GDPR, everything must be opted out by default.
• tomjen3 8y ago
  Normally you can get around that by disabling js. Alternatively I have pocket installed and just save in that. But we seriously need a browser standard header that says no to that, along with a requirement that the only necessary cookie to read a website is GDPR with the value 0. I think tc is at more than 50.