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This is all you see when clicking techcrunch articles:

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.