"Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries"

I wonder how we as a community should handle websites that are not internationally available.

My first reaction is that we should not link to them. It somehow feels wrong. I'm not sure though.

I think the way most chinese people who also suffer from similar issues deal with it is a VPN.

One of my mentors taught me this lesson. He’d ask if I was done. Yes I just have to make source and production masters and file them. He asked if I was done until I finally said no. It’s not done until all the housekeeping is done. I’m a big Tesla fan, but they can’t claim 5000/week until they’re done. And that means in the lot awaiting shipment.

To quote one of my favourite twitter accounts:

"Things that happen in Silicon Valley and also the Soviet Union:

- waiting years to receive a car you ordered, to find that it's of poor workmanship and quality"

https://twitter.com/atroyn/status/1014974099930714115?lang=e...

Also “sending things to space as a distraction from enormous social problems” and “nominally progressive, pretend-meritocratic elite siphons away an increasingly massive share of wealth”.

As discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17471324 .

Why do HN keep supporting the LA Times which is UNREADABLE in the EU, with that stupid GDPR wall?

Is the article not available anywhere else? Can we at least have the "Outline it" link instead of the "web" one?

Blame your politicians, not the website. Expecting the whole world to bow to the whims of your government is frankly laughable.

Nobody's blaming the website, it can live without EU readers and we can live without it. @mdrzn is merely spreading awareness that this is GDPR-walled, while at the same time expressing discontent that some people still don't know/care about it. Is that unreasonable? I don't know. I guess it'll be decided by how often requests like that appear below GDPR-unfriendly links, and how highly-upvoted they get.

Could someone who doesn't care for their privacy copy-paste the article? I'm blocked with their message "tracking you without consent is our DNA, and the EU might get angry, oops"

NVM: http://archive.is/RNXhp

Try this (bad formatting, but readable): http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.lat...

Actually, it's real pretty with Firefox's built-in "reader mode"

Another option: https://outline.com/3jHBNW

you can also open the website at the original location with scripts disabled and it loads up just fine, no notices.

Instructions unclear. JS disabled for [*.]latimes.com but still no dice.