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Comment by surak | Hacker News Reader

Please, stop linking to Techcrunch on HN if you respect privacy. For those in located Europe you have to go through a disrespective process to read a story.

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Normally you can get around that by disabling js. Alternatively I have pocket installed and just save in that.

But we seriously need a browser standard header that says no to that, along with a requirement that the only necessary cookie to read a website is GDPR with the value 0.

I think tc is at more than 50.

With my JS blocker in-place and Reader View, it's actually fine :-)

That'd be my thought too. Does this difficulty persist when you employ Ublock Origin, Privacy Badger, Ghostery, etc? And a browser that doesn't override the user's wishes, like Firefox or Opera?

Without defenses like these, for example, reuters.com is intolerably spammy. But with them it's a delight. Same goes for TechCrunch.

Disrespective process?

Try it through europe vpn. Long list of many pages of third party sharing leeches and dark ui techniques (you only see accept button and have to click on the non underlined normal looking text to see the list of oartners; no “select/deselect all” button means you have to click off each checkbox)

> Long list of many pages of third party sharing

Aren't they required to do this by European law?

No, this is the most hostile thing they can get away with, but they are absolutely not required to make it as painful for you as possible.

If you have to opt out of one option at a time, it is against the law. According to GDPR, everything must be opted out by default.

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