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Just in case non-European people wonder, here's what we get presented with instead of the article:

> Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to the EU market. We continue to identify technical compliance solutions that will provide all readers with our award-winning journalism.




What a shitshow. They could just disable cookies instead, or display text-only versions of the articles instead of this passive-agressive behaviour.


Right. I don't understand why they don't just disable all the ways that they make money and give their content to people in the EU for free.


Well they'd earn the same as they're earning now :D


Their behaviour is more defensive in nature, really.




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