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I prefer this verge link https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/11/20689983/apple-watch-walk...

as techcrunch privacy settings are yahoo driven and I was never able to manage them - not sure they really give you an option

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The EU should fine that company out of existence. Yahoo/Oath/whatever they’re called now is cancer.

The Verge doesn’t give me, in the UK, any options to control my level of cookie acceptance. They offer me two policies to read an an accept button.

At least they don’t redirect the page so you can block the overlay with an ad blocker and be done.

Not saying this is OK (and definitely not compliant with the GDPR) but still slightly better.

TC's webdevs have been forced to put up that crap, but to their credit their site works very well without JS, so you can just block it wholesale. I still wouldn't share their links, though.

With Safari/iOS, all I see when I click your link is a full screen GDPR cookie notice with truncated text (the start is missing), that can only be dismissed by accepting tracking.

Thanks for the alternate link.

In general I think HN should consider just banning TechCrunch links verbatim. That would lead to people actually submitting stories from sites which respects people’s privacy instead, and everyone wins.

what privacy setting? i never get that popup.

techcrunch is ok imo.

the verge on the other hand won’t load for 3 seconds if i have an ad-blocker turned on. so i stopped visiting it since their ads are 90s level of terrible.

techcrunch is using oauth, one of the absolute worst offenders.

They should be banned from hn altogether.

I assume you're referring to the media company 'oath'[1] not the auth framework 'oauth'[2]?

[1]: https://www.oath.com/ [2]: https://oauth.net/

My bad, I've read it incorrectly. It's Oath.

Nitpick: they aren't using OAuth, they are owned by Oath (now Verizon Media).

This is all you see when clicking techcrunch articles:

https://imgur.com/a/mId1Jfi

If you "manage" your settings to block everything it'll just be back next time.

As a consequence, I haven't read a techcrunch article since June 2018.

Interesting, I have never seen that and even tried in an Incognito tab and with Safari which I don't use regularly.

I'm guessing you're not in the EU then? I see this everywhere.

I don't know, I use an old browser with javascript disabled, and I seem to read techcrunch articles just fine.

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