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It is illegal only if the website uses pervasive user tracking. Its like with cookie banners - they are not necessary if the site is not deploying the surveilla

• jchw 1y ago
  Basically what you are saying is it should be illegal to load that page unless they change it. And it is illegal. They have no interest in changing the page. Therefore, they are preventing the page from loading as a result of legal reasons, not because there is any technical issue with loading the page. I don't know how to break this to you, but that is the correct status code. They can be forgiven that they didn't make a second status code for "Page Can't Be Loaded Because It's Illegal But Actually It Should Be In Many People's Opinions". I'm not in favor of pervasive internet tracking, but that doesn't change the reality: it is illegal for them to serve you that page. Putting it that way does make it sound bad, but what do you want to do, invent new words to make it seem better? It's what it is.
• Brian_K_White 1y ago
  It still means the code is correct. It just means that there isn't some technical problem but intentional behavior, and there is some governmental policy at the root of it, rather than say a billing/account issue etc. Saying "they could just not collect data" is like saying "they could just not show porn" or talk about Winnie the Pooh or whatever.