Popular porn sites now display unproven health warnings thanks to Texas law

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Popular porn sites now display unproven health warnings thanks to Texas law
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Popular porn sites now display unproven health warnings thanks to Texas law::Popular online adult film sites in Texas are posting health warnings about watching porn, despite the fact a law requiring them to do so was blocked in August.

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Please don't the 17 attempts for me to surrender my cookies are already exhausting my willingness to use the web.

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These popups are worse than the actual pop-up ads - at least those were in separate windows or tabs and so could be closed easily with keyboard shortcuts.

I often decline their cookie bull, they'll just keep asking with every new page i load from that website. Preferably with a pop-up that covers 2/3rd of the screen.

I think but haven't done any proper investigations, that some sites only store your cookie response if you accept a certain kind of cookies. Basically every site now divides cookies up into functional, optimisation and marketing, and I have at least observed:

  1. go to website, receive prompt
  2. decline all non-required cookies
  3. go to next page within website, receive prompt again
  4. decline all but functional cookies (or similar wording
  5. go to next page, no prompt.

If you can figure out which script is responsible for the pop-up, it's usually possible to block it by, for instance, feeding its URL to your ad blocker. Just takes a bit of patience.

All this on news sites and when you refuse everything you get into a paywall

Today's Internet is so much worse than the Internet a decade ago... Exponentially higher speeds, yet everything runs way slower and you have to dig for anything you want out of a sea of that

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