Just a detail: it is Oath (the company, https://www.oath.com), not OAuth (the open standard, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OAuth).

They're probably the current champions in how to make opting out of tracking cookies maximally inconvenient. Although to their credit they at least seem to remember my choices instead of sneakily reverting back to "accept everything" after a while.

I can't find the opt out on mobile, so I just open incognito, accept and then close after reading. Truly garbage implementation.

So if it annoys you, why do you still surf their site? I shift my attenton to sites which treat me fairly (and so I do with them. tit for tat).

I don't - and it seems millions more people have turned away too, given the precipitous drop in their audience and valuation. It was just in this case I didn't notice the link was to tumblr before I clicked on it.

How else would I read this particular post?

Also it's not like Tumblr was like this when this post was, er, posted. It was pretty nice to browse.

It's poorly implemented too -- even if you're requesting a blog's RSS feed, Tumblr sends you that Oath screen unless your user-agent is on their list of approved RSS readers.

Im in the EU and I NEVER accept those GDPR message things.

Luckily this time outline worked and allowed me to read the article.

It’s for GDPR compliance.

They may claim that, but I don’t think it makes them GDPR-compliant. IMO, it’s in conflict with https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-32/:

”If the data subject’s consent is to be given following a request by electronic means, the request must be clear, concise and not unnecessarily disruptive to the use of the service for which it is provided.”

and https://gdpr-info.eu/issues/consent/:

”The withdrawal must be as easy as giving consent.”

Well, it might not be compliant, but the splash screen is their attempt at compliance. It doesn’t show in the US.