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by hobofan 2953 days ago
Since the site was unusable and I wasn't able to look up the study they cite I'll have to make a small assumption:

Based on the date of the article, I assume this mostly precludes contactless payment. As a personal anecdote, a salad place I know in Berlin recently switched over to card-only and they specifically encourage and educate people to make use of the contactless payment feature thats enable in most debit/credit cards Germans have. They went from unmanageable long queues that made eating there a chore to almost no queues and one of the fastest ways to pick up food via that single change.
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freeflight 2953 days ago
> Since the site was unusable

I thought it was just me. On Chrome the site kept on reloading as soon as I scrolled down. Managed to bypass that behavior by hitting the "cancel refresh" button as soon as I scrolled down.

Still, a weird thing to happen, this morning Twitter had a pretty similar issue with their GDPR message: It would keep on reloading and reloading, making the whole thing unusable, until you manually told the browser to stop reloading.

This behavior persists with or without adblocker active, did GDPR break the Internet?

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kara_jade 2953 days ago
FAZ, like many other German newspapers and magazines, uses ad-blocker blocking. Disable scripts for the site and it works.
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