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EDIT: I didn't realize the anger this would bring out of people. It was supposed to be a funny meme based on recent real-life situations I've encountered, not an attack on the EU.

I appreciate the effort of the EU cookie laws. The practice of them just doesn't live up to the theory of the law. Shady companies are always going to find a way to be shady.

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[–] 162 points 3 years ago (20 children)

I refuse to go to sites that do this, I also refuse to go to sites that block adblock...and specially the sites that detect and block private browsing, that one shouldn't even be a thing

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  • [–] 45 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Sites that block adblock - I have network based filtering I'm not going to take the time to specifically figure out what ad providers you're using (which is probably that same as everyone else) just to unblock your shitty site.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    LOL, I also use DNS based filtering soooo I feel your pain.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Hilariously, I find the Pi-hole feature "disable for 5 seconds" often works because it'll be down for long enough to load the page but not the ads.

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  • [–] 29 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    The fun part is that websites that do this are illegal in the EU

    They need to start flexing that 4% revenue / year fines

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I hope one day they just start fining everyone doing it all at once

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago

    And i hope they start using that sizing thing at airports to keep people from carrying on their massive samsonite tuba-sized suitcases and jamming them into the entirety of the overhead storage.

    But we can't always get what we want.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I don't use adblock, and yet i keep getting "disable adblock to view this" messages, fuck this shit

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Most browsers block some ads by default as well as some other privacy protections nowadays. I'm guessing whatever sites you're hitting have advertisers so scummy they're blocked by default

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    Why the fuck would they prevent private browsing? I use that a lot to be sure the session is closed correctly.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    There's lots of newspaper sites in the US, that do this. They'll be like "wanna use private browsing, make an account, or go visit from normal browsing." Idk why they do it but they do. Apparently there are discrepancies in the way browsers handle persistent storage features between private and non-private browsing that allow for detection

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    https://12ft.io

    I use this to deal with paywalled articles.

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