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what privacy setting? i never get that popup.

techcrunch is ok imo.

the verge on the other hand won’t load for 3 seconds if i have an ad-blocker turned on. so i stopped visiting it since their ads are 90s level of terrible.

This is all you see when clicking techcrunch articles:

https://imgur.com/a/mId1Jfi

If you "manage" your settings to block everything it'll just be back next time.

As a consequence, I haven't read a techcrunch article since June 2018.

Interesting, I have never seen that and even tried in an Incognito tab and with Safari which I don't use regularly.

I'm guessing you're not in the EU then? I see this everywhere.

I don't know, I use an old browser with javascript disabled, and I seem to read techcrunch articles just fine.

techcrunch is using oauth, one of the absolute worst offenders.

They should be banned from hn altogether.

I assume you're referring to the media company 'oath'[1] not the auth framework 'oauth'[2]?

[1]: https://www.oath.com/ [2]: https://oauth.net/

My bad, I've read it incorrectly. It's Oath.

Nitpick: they aren't using OAuth, they are owned by Oath (now Verizon Media).

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