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It's the truth (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Best of all you do not need to click the link, load the website, enable JavaScript because there is nothing without it and then tap the cookie banner away disabling all of the cookies first.

[–] rivvvver 31 points 2 years ago (4 children)

i see a future where we no longer access websites directly because websites got so bloated that using a bot to give us the content instead is just way easier

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

We do that now by skipping to the comments though...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A bot that would send us the content as email, which we'd read using Emacs. I can see that happening.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

RSS to emacs possible?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

And also avoiding the possibility of your browser not being supported. What a world.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Isn't that just chatGPT?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

And don't get me started on "legitimate interest" cookies. Legitimate to whom?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Actually you usually need to have Javascript off, 90% of news websites paywalls are just Javascript so turning it off let's you read the article.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

There are quite a many websites just showing a white page if JavaScript is off...