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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 beginne
by 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 agoJournalists have bills to pay.
- natch 6y agoIs having bills to pay a valid excuse for any and all bad behavior?
- liability 6y agoIn 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 agoBoth paywalls and ads are possible without any cookies, scripts or tracking.
- jacquesm 6y agoThat 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.
- bzb4 6y agoOkay, who’s going to pay for that?
- katmannthree 6y agoOne way or another we all will.