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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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