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Comment by jetanoia | Hacker News Reader

fyi the aljazeera screenshot doesn’t show the dji article - just a cookie disclosure. Was the ‘ridiculous’ part in the article? Or their saying that the cookie gives “voice to the voiceless”. (Which is funny)

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You can barely see the title behind the cookie popup and the "live" section, which is one of the worst examples I've seen for these annoying practices.

Thankfully Firefox on Android has the "reader mode" available right next to the url.

it's ridiculous that the propaganda arm of a totalitarian illiberal petrostate claims to "give a voice to the voiceless" or "promote truth and transparency". i also really dislike them because their "aj+" brand puts out heavily left biased faux-intellectual junk similar to vox or buzzfeed which makes me want to punch through a wall regardless of who puts it out.

It’s ridiculous that the cookie banner takes that much space. The site is pretty unusable like that.

That's the whole idea, that is should be if not a modal, then like a modal, to get a response from the user before proceeding with the site.

Nothing ridiculous about it (except the GDPR law itself). Many news websites do it even bigger, or hide the whole screen with a modal white overlay.

GDPR does not mandate huge banners for every use of cookies. Those banners are mandated because the website in question wants to share information gathered on you with, in the case of most news websites, hundreds of third parties in order to make a little bit more money from advertisers.

So pretty much the same as every other news site on the planet? I guess I'm not fully understanding why the OP is specifically calling out Al Jazeera here.

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