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"This content is not available in your country/region." This should be removed from HN: the content is not on the Internet.
by jwr 3y ago
"This content is not available in your country/region."
This should be removed from HN: the content is not on the Internet.
- xabi 3y agohttps://archive.is/Sjzdz https://archive.is/Sjzdz
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- unpopular42 3y ago[flagged]
- fullspectrumdev 3y agoOr the site operators could simply use less invasive analytics/adtech. It’s been a few years now, GDPR compliant analytics/advertising is a solved problem.
- unpopular42 3y agoSolved by an insanely stupid pop-up on every website on the internet. No thanks, I prefer the old way.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoUnless you're dealing with some country in turmoil, at high risk of a revolution, and the government is currently engaged in suppressing dissent, the most likely case is that the content provider is making a business decision to exclude certain geographical locations. Could be market segmentation, could be them wanting to avoid having to follow a very good and beneficial set of laws, which prevents certain abuses and thus cuts into their profit margin (a well-known example here starts with "G" and ends with "R"). Either way, the point stands. Region-locked for bullshit reasons = not on the Internet.
- Aaargh20318 3y agoIf you can’t even serve out a piece of text without invading your visitors privacy you don’t deserve to be in business.
- jakear 3y agoIf you can't even allow folks to serve your citizens fully benign content without worrying about what the legal consequences of writing a cookie will be in a far off land they couldn't care less about (quite literally a local news site), you don't deserve to be in government.
- the_mitsuhiko 3y agoThere was a time when we were able to read news articles with no cookie being set.
- unpopular42 3y agoThere was a time when we weren't scared of cookies
- krapp 3y agoPeople are really more scared of cookies than they need to be.
- jakear 3y agoTell your user agent to fix that, not your congress.
- Aaargh20318 3y agoYou don't need to ask permission to set cookies, that's a complete misunderstanding of the law. The law doesn't even mention cookies. You only need to ask permission if you're going to perform any kind of privacy invading tracking, regardless of method. You're perfectly allowed to serve out 'fully benign content'. The fact this geoblock is in place implies they are not serving 'fully benign content'. The law doesn't even stop you from adding privacy invading tracking methods to your website. It only says you need the user's freely given consent.
- thesaintlives 3y ago[flagged]