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Re:Great white sharks go to places that were thought to be o... by privong on Monday May 28, 2018 @08:55AM (#17172157)
> The redirect goes to the main page if the "disagree" to tracking link is clicked.

Interesting, are you in the EU? I was never shown a dialog about tracking or an agree/disagree link (either with or without javascript disabled).

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Re:Great white sharks go to places that were thought to be o... by rhn_mk1 on Monday May 28, 2018 @09:06AM (#17172197)
The IP they see is located in the EU. Here's what I'm getting: https://i.imgur.com/lyztBl4.png

I'm browsing with scripts and cookies disabled, if that matters, although I wouldn't expect this to make a difference.

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Re:Great white sharks go to places that were thought to be o... by rinze on Monday May 28, 2018 @11:22AM (#17172892)
"Decline tracking, go to a site that loads 10 times faster and doesn't have any crap".

It's too long for a button, but I think it might work.

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Re:Great white sharks go to places that were thought to be o... by Gravityloss on Monday May 28, 2018 @11:43AM (#17173017)
The link goes to the text version of npr.org main page, not the article. It's clearly designed to be the worse alternative.
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Re:Great white sharks go to places that were thought to be o... by privong on Monday May 28, 2018 @06:05PM (#17175142)
> The link goes to the text version of npr.org main page, not the article.

For me the link @rhn_mk1 posted goes directly to a text version of the article on sharks.

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Re:Great white sharks go to places that were thought to be o... by Gravityloss on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @07:58AM (#17178285)
Yes, the link posted on hacker news goes there. The poster went through the work to find the page again as text only version.

The "text version" link in the article goes to the front page (text version).

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Re:Great white sharks go to places that were thought to be o... by StavrosK on Monday May 28, 2018 @09:04AM (#17172193)
I am, and I got that. Looks like they clearly want to punish visitors who don't want to be tracked, as they could have at least put some CSS on there. Still, Firefox reader mode for the win.
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Re:Great white sharks go to places that were thought to be o... by icebraining on Monday May 28, 2018 @09:37AM (#17172302)
text.npr.org was launched in 2005 (and intended to be used by early HTML capable cellphones with weak data links and such), they're just reusing it.
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Re:Great white sharks go to places that were thought to be o... by StavrosK on Monday May 28, 2018 @09:41AM (#17172324)
Oh, I didn't know that, thanks.
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