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I was mildly interested in the article based on the title, because the right to repair is imho necessary in many areas of life. But I am most definitely not int

I was mildly interested in the article based on the title, because the right to repair is imho necessary in many areas of life. But I am most definitely not interested enough to do the trivial work to bypass the " This content is not available in your country/region." message. If you can't figure out how to serve your content to users without extreme tracking (at least I assume that the reason for this message is the consumer protection found in the EU), then your content can't be that important.

Clubber 3y ago
It's not that important for the EU. The summary is John Deere would put chips in their tractors that were aware if you replaced a part. If you replaced that part, the tractor would brick until you took it to the dealership to update the computer.
neon_electro 3y ago
You can read it here: https://archive.ph/elD6M https://archive.ph/elD6M
_a9 3y ago
Like another commenter mentioned, using archive.today bypasses most paywalls and blocks. A trick I always use is to just append the url to archive.today[0] to get a page with no ads and bloat. You could also make a bookmarklet to make it a 1-click thing. Sometimes it might not be archived so you will have to click 'archive this url' to make one, but people are usually quick to archive articles that are posted here [0]: https://archive.today/https://www.wivb.com/news/colorado-becomes-1st-to-pass-right-to-repair-for-farmers/ https://archive.today/https://www.wivb.com/news/colorado-bec...
pie_flavor 3y ago
You can provide them with your email and they will send you a newsletter. That counts as storing user data and would require them to have to deal with the GDPR behemoth. Compliance costs a lot of time and money. Or you could just block EU users, which are not going to be reading a lot of Buffalo local news. Categorizing it as just extreme tracking is disingenuous.

Clubber 3y ago

It's not that important for the EU. The summary is John Deere would put chips in their tractors that were aware if you replaced a part. If you replaced that part, the tractor would brick until you took it to the dealership to update the computer.

neon_electro 3y ago

You can read it here: https://archive.ph/elD6M https://archive.ph/elD6M

_a9 3y ago

Like another commenter mentioned, using archive.today bypasses most paywalls and blocks. A trick I always use is to just append the url to archive.today[0] to get a page with no ads and bloat. You could also make a bookmarklet to make it a 1-click thing. Sometimes it might not be archived so you will have to click 'archive this url' to make one, but people are usually quick to archive articles that are posted here [0]: https://archive.today/https://www.wivb.com/news/colorado-becomes-1st-to-pass-right-to-repair-for-farmers/ https://archive.today/https://www.wivb.com/news/colorado-bec...

pie_flavor 3y ago

You can provide them with your email and they will send you a newsletter. That counts as storing user data and would require them to have to deal with the GDPR behemoth. Compliance costs a lot of time and money. Or you could just block EU users, which are not going to be reading a lot of Buffalo local news. Categorizing it as just extreme tracking is disingenuous.