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Comment by bzb4 | Hacker News Reader

Of course, if your browser is not standards compliant (no cookies) then you have to expect websites not to work.

If a simple news article cannot be displayed without cookies, scripts or CSS the failure is not on the client side.

Something went seriously wrong if a beginner with 15 minutes of HTML experience can create a better performing, more usable site imho.

Journalists have bills to pay.

That website wasn't made by journalists, but by their bosses. If the news is going to be 'for pay' only then effectively being informed equates to being wealthy and the not so wealthy will be preyed on by the 'fake news' department, because to them spreading the news is the business.

So there is a very strong case to be made for keeping news free for the masses, even when they run adblockers.

Okay, who’s going to pay for that?

One way or another we all will.

Is having bills to pay a valid excuse for any and all bad behavior?

In the movie Thank You For Smoking a tobacco industry spokesman calls it the 'Yuppie Nuremberg Defense.' Instead of "I had orders" it's "I had a mortgage."

Both paywalls and ads are possible without any cookies, scripts or tracking.

This was never stated (no cookies), the tracking protection layer blocks cross-site and social media cookies amongst other bad ideas. This browser has hundreds of active, working, viable cookies in play (to include HackerNews login) -- it is this specific website which is incorrect for trying to use a known-malicious cookie setting technique in 2020 and violate my rights to privacy.

Please open a Webcompat issue; if it's breaking in Firefox, it may be breaking in development versions of other browsers as well.

https://webcompat.com/issues/new

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