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Yesterday I couldn’t read an ancient Greek text on Project Gutenberg because I’m from Germany. Two days ago I couldn’t read an article on an US news site becaus
by stesch 8y ago
Yesterday I couldn’t read an ancient Greek text on Project Gutenberg because I’m from Germany. Two days ago I couldn’t read an article on an US news site because I’m from Europe.
The “WW” in “WWW” is a joke.
- Cthulhu_ 8y agoThat's down to the EU forcing that site to protect your privacy, which that US site can't be bothered with. Nothing to do with the WWW as a technology. Blame that US site and its advertisers for trying to harvest your data for advertisers.
- waffleguy 8y agoYou can’t really blame anyone. A person doesn’t want to give away his/her information, and site doesn’t want to give away its information for free. They simply don’t see eye to eye.
- qwertox 8y agoIt's technically possible if you go to another country. And if you consider that it's also practically possible if you use a VPN, it's not really the fault of the web.