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Re:Italy Wikipedia shuts down in protest at proposed EU copy... by 13of40 on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @10:17AM (#17450339)
I'm vacationing in Germany right now, and as a news aggregator junkie I'm amazed at how much content is just blocked, with nearly everything else having dark patterned UI that either inconveniences or punishes you if you don't accept their tracking. It was really sad to see NPR's options: Either consent to everything or view plain HTML that would render correctly on Mozilla 1.0, with no images.
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Re:Italy Wikipedia shuts down in protest at proposed EU copy... by jacobsenscott on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @10:42AM (#17450578)
More likely their site was built on the assumption of a free and open internet, and it would be a massive effort to rebuild it to comply with new regulations. And even if they did it would be obsoleted by future regulations. At this point serving static html to the EU is the only safe choice. Welcome back geocities!
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Re:Italy Wikipedia shuts down in protest at proposed EU copy... by sincerely on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @01:46PM (#17452226)
>At this point serving static html to the EU is the only safe choice.

This seems like an improvement for probably 90% of the websites out there, so I'm fine with that.

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Re:Italy Wikipedia shuts down in protest at proposed EU copy... by pluma on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @11:36AM (#17451037)
> At this point serving static html to the EU is the only safe choice.

Technically even serving a blank page means you need to also serve a privacy policy because accessing the blank page requires the user to submit personal data for technical reasons and they have no way to know whether you'll store it.

So, no, there is no "safe choice". Minimalise data use, use a generator to get a compliant privacy policy describing that use and treat your users with respect.

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Re:Italy Wikipedia shuts down in protest at proposed EU copy... by vt100 on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @11:00AM (#17450741)
Bring back frames!
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Re:Italy Wikipedia shuts down in protest at proposed EU copy... by intrasight on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @10:28AM (#17450436)
>view plain HTML

Which is perfect, right?

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Re:Italy Wikipedia shuts down in protest at proposed EU copy... by isostatic on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @02:22PM (#17452533)
Pretty much, other than they break the deep link.

Follow https://www.npr.org/2018/07/03/625544265/pentagon-questioned...

Redirect to https://choice.npr.org/index.html?origin=https://www.npr.org...

Reject the sell-your-soul option and get dumped to https://text.npr.org/

You should instead be sent to https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=625544265

There is no technical reason for these sites to not work without accepting cookies -- this is easily proven with curl. The sId is right there in the URL.

(of course there's no technical reason the full featured site can't be served either without setting hundereds of external cookies to nameless numbers of companies)

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Re:Italy Wikipedia shuts down in protest at proposed EU copy... by bscphil on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @10:35PM (#17454944)
> You should instead be sent to https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=625544265

My god that site's beautiful. Add a little CSS to limit the line width and it's perfect.

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Re:Italy Wikipedia shuts down in protest at proposed EU copy... by 13of40 on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @03:06AM (#17455695)
The thing that galled me was that the link I was originally following was to an image. That's a little bit of a deal breaker.
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Re:Italy Wikipedia shuts down in protest at proposed EU copy... by isostatic on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @04:36AM (#17456009)
Hit reader view

https://i.imgur.com/3VSX3VP.png

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Re:Italy Wikipedia shuts down in protest at proposed EU copy... by reaperducer on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @11:20AM (#17450898)
No more pesky switching to Lynx!
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