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https://www.cnn.com/browser-blocked

It lets me check the Gaza war updates page but it seems any other page (homepage etc) is that crap.

I did "Update now" - ~~the problem remains.~~ I fixed it. It was an adblock issue.

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Edit: What are they talking about?

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[–] YearOfTheCommieDesktop@hexbear.net 49 points 2 years ago (5 children)

"we need to serve you cookies so we can track your preference not to be tracked with cookies"

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I had to read the first sentence twice to figure that out. Silly me not to understand that "We must track you" is for my own benefit.

[–] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If I'm blocking cookies, I'm obviously not consenting to cookies.

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 11 points 2 years ago

Lol, they know. They also know they are required to serve the option, but you are not required to not block it.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago

The internet privacy version of "just the tip"

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

Please disable your privacy settings so we can insert our own identifican triangulation telemetry trojan.

[–] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

Catch-22 logic

[–] YearOfTheCommieDesktop@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

https://reddit.invak.id/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/18autyy/cnncom_blocking_browser_because_of_ublockorigin/

are you using ublock or Brave or ??

Seems like ublock with up to date filters should bypass it unless they came out with a new block again already. Might have to clear cache or manually update filters

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

I'm using Ublock and Edge.

Might have to clear cache or manually update filters

I'll try that later. It's very weird to me that the update page works.

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Edit

I'm also using Adblock. But I'm not using the filter they are complaining about. I'm using other cookie filters in that app. I updated them and the problem seems to have gone away.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Edge

That may possibly be your issue.

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

avoid mixing adblocking extensions too much - it results in weird behavior

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] YerbaYerba@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Locked down work computer is my guess.

[–] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What you get for using Brave tbh

[–] EpicKebabEater@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

It's just the default text, I got the same message with Firefox.