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An article dissing cookie popups has a cookie popup with no easy opt out. Amazing.

• hannob 5y ago
  It's easy to make that take. But try to see the story from the other side. The person writing that article is a journalist who almost certainly has no direct connection to the ad department of his site and the people who are responsible for the cookie banner. (I sympathize, because I'm a journalist with no direct connection to any of those things.) It's an unfortunate reality that most media orgs use shitty ad tech. There's also an alignment of incentives that makes it hard for media orgs to do anything else. For a journalist there's few options how to handle this: 1. Still write about these things and be called hypocritical. 2. Don't write about these things and avoid being called hypocritical. 3. Write about these things on sites without cookies and shitty ads (e.g. a private, simple blog) and don't get payed. I don't think 2 is particularly preferrable and it should be understandable that 3 is not particularly attractive.
  • csunbird 5y ago
    The article also just a re-write of the original article, and contains no original content.