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Re:A list of ways to “Break the Internet” for the 48 hours b... by thephyber on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @09:10PM (#15911457)
We feel the same about the EU and all of the "THIS SITE USES COOKIES" banners.

It shouldn't be terribly hard to isolate the effects to browsers that request language-locale tuples from the US or run the JavaScript conditionally on the browser if the locale+timezone is set to something in the US.

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Re:A list of ways to “Break the Internet” for the 48 hours b... by CaptSpify on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @09:33PM (#15911579)
Please no. The less location-based variances on the web, the better
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Re:A list of ways to “Break the Internet” for the 48 hours b... by TheCoreh on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @09:53PM (#15911659)
I understand the frustration with making content region-specific, but the less annoying cookie-law banners irrelevant to my jurisdiction on the web, the better. I'd be personally fine with that sort of location-based variance: it's not that different from setting a default weather location for a news website, for instance.
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