Tell HN: News sites may have a “lite” version for low-bandwidth users

Re:Tell HN: News sites may have a “lite” version for low-ban... by unfocussed_mike on Thursday February 24, 2022 @10:26AM (#30455736)

I knew about the NPR one because that is where NPR sent EU readers until it sorted out its GDPR policies.

Some US news sites still operate an even "liter" policy for European readers of not allowing them to read content at all.

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Re:Tell HN: News sites may have a “lite” version for low-ban... by unfocussed_mike on Thursday February 24, 2022 @01:44PM (#30458544)

As a for-instance:

The Ohio Capital-Journal simply says:

"This site not available in your country".

As text/plain.

Other sites throw 403s.

In general I don't think we're missing out on much in the way of journalism from the sites that do this, but there are some larger media groups that are still simply blocking European users rather than address privacy.

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