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Can we get an English report, preferably not paywalled? From what I can read in the first few paragraphs, the title seems sensationalised.

ludamad 6y ago
To me it was implied someone hadn't written one yet, and hitting translate got me half the article. Admittedly, this leaves me half-informed
- mv4 6y ago
  just like the auditors!
  - jacquesm 6y ago
    Substantially less than half in that case.
gravitas 6y ago
The website is user-hostile; if you accept the Advertisements it attempts to set a cookie which the Firefox tracking protection layer won't allow to happen, resulting in an error and no article access.
- MichaelApproved 6y ago
  Is that FF tracking protection turned on by default?
  - marcosdumay 6y ago
    Yes, it's on by default. There is a site-wide off switch if you know where to look, but I doubt most people would find it.
- bzb4 6y ago
  Of course, if your browser is not standards compliant (no cookies) then you have to expect websites not to work.
  - alpaca128 6y ago
    If a simple news article cannot be displayed without cookies, scripts or CSS the failure is not on the client side. Something went seriously wrong if a beginner with 15 minutes of HTML experience can create a better performing, more usable site imho.
    - bzb4 6y ago
      Journalists have bills to pay.
      - natch 6y ago
        Is having bills to pay a valid excuse for any and all bad behavior?
        liability 6y ago
        In the movie Thank You For Smoking a tobacco industry spokesman calls it the 'Yuppie Nuremberg Defense.' Instead of "I had orders" it's "I had a mortgage."
      - alpaca128 6y ago
        Both paywalls and ads are possible without any cookies, scripts or tracking.
      - jacquesm 6y ago
        That website wasn't made by journalists, but by their bosses. If the news is going to be 'for pay' only then effectively being informed equates to being wealthy and the not so wealthy will be preyed on by the 'fake news' department, because to them spreading the news is the business. So there is a very strong case to be made for keeping news free for the masses, even when they run adblockers.
- MaxBarraclough 6y ago
  Fire up a Private Browsing session and let it install whatever cookies it likes. Not that this option makes it any less user-hostile.

ludamad 6y ago

To me it was implied someone hadn't written one yet, and hitting translate got me half the article. Admittedly, this leaves me half-informed

mv4 6y ago
just like the auditors!
- jacquesm 6y ago
  Substantially less than half in that case.

gravitas 6y ago

The website is user-hostile; if you accept the Advertisements it attempts to set a cookie which the Firefox tracking protection layer won't allow to happen, resulting in an error and no article access.

MichaelApproved 6y ago
Is that FF tracking protection turned on by default?
- marcosdumay 6y ago
  Yes, it's on by default. There is a site-wide off switch if you know where to look, but I doubt most people would find it.
bzb4 6y ago
Of course, if your browser is not standards compliant (no cookies) then you have to expect websites not to work.
- alpaca128 6y ago
  If a simple news article cannot be displayed without cookies, scripts or CSS the failure is not on the client side. Something went seriously wrong if a beginner with 15 minutes of HTML experience can create a better performing, more usable site imho.
  - bzb4 6y ago
    Journalists have bills to pay.
    - natch 6y ago
      Is having bills to pay a valid excuse for any and all bad behavior?
      - liability 6y ago
        In the movie Thank You For Smoking a tobacco industry spokesman calls it the 'Yuppie Nuremberg Defense.' Instead of "I had orders" it's "I had a mortgage."
    - alpaca128 6y ago
      Both paywalls and ads are possible without any cookies, scripts or tracking.
    - jacquesm 6y ago
      That website wasn't made by journalists, but by their bosses. If the news is going to be 'for pay' only then effectively being informed equates to being wealthy and the not so wealthy will be preyed on by the 'fake news' department, because to them spreading the news is the business. So there is a very strong case to be made for keeping news free for the masses, even when they run adblockers.
MaxBarraclough 6y ago
Fire up a Private Browsing session and let it install whatever cookies it likes. Not that this option makes it any less user-hostile.