[GaProgMan]

Here in the UK, you have to either pay a subscription fee or accept ALL of their tracking cookies in order to read their articles.

[Digit-Al]

I know a lot of people like to dump on Firefox, but a number of paywalls, including the Guardian one, completely disappear when you use it. For those that don't, some of them disappear if you use reader mode.

[kube-system]

And archive.is joins their users into botnets

I’ll take the cookies

[em-bee]

got any reference for that claim?

[kube-system]

It has been discussed on HN pretty frequently since it started happening: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/search-engines/archive...

Wikipedia has deprecated them as a result

[CTOSian]

Or just toggle JS on their site mate

[andrepd]

Isn't that the choice people on hn claim to want to have? Let me pay for journalism and not be tracked please.

[applfanboysbgon]

You may be surprised to learn that there is more than one person on HN, and also that among the group of people made up of more than one person, some of them have different opinions than others.

[em-bee]

there are a lot of sites that do that, especially in germany. and it annoys me to no end because i believe it is actually illegal. at least that's how i understand it. i might be wrong but i believe that tracking cookies must always be optional, paid or not.