Turning off Java script worked when this happened to me. Firefox and ublock origin. It breaks some things but you can do it on a per site basis.
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CNN fucks. :)
Oh no! Anyway...
Ha ha hah!
Lmao, "required componentes to protect your privacy" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
You see what they're actually doing there?
"We are by law forced to give you the option to view our ads and accept our tracking, because of privacy legislation in your region. Since you are hindering us from doing so, you can't come to the birthday party".
Ok, thank you EU, I suppose! :)
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Please dont post pictures of text without transcribing the text.
My bad, I'm still new to this. Someone else kindly did below, no offense meant.
Please update the post with the transcript, add a link to the source page where the text appears, dont do this again, and let others know.
Let's maintain the quality of this comm.
You think you are providing quality by making people jump through hoops for you? :)
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[Screenshot of web page]
[Header with CNN logo]
[Text of page follows]
Browser Blocked
We apologize, but your web browser is configured in such a way that it is preventing this site from implementing required components that protect your privacy and allow you to view and change your privacy settings. This functionality is required for privacy legislation in your region.
We recommend you use a different browser or disable the "EasyList Cookie" filter from your "Content Filtering" settings (found under "Settings" -> "Shields" in the Brave Browser).
[End of text]
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Could probably try spoofing the user-agent of you really need to use their service (I mean, I wouldn't, this is wholly unethical). The Floorp browser (a fork of Firefox) comes with the ability to spoof to other browsers easily
I use chameleon to change my user agent every 60 seconds. Its just one of many tools that I think are important to protect your privacy in the web browser.
Why is it unethical?
I think they mean it would be wholly unethical reading CNN articles. :)
That is indeed what I meant (since they block the viewers based on browser haha)
Welcome to the Corporate Internet.
Get ready to play by Their Rules on Their Services.
Good thing a lot of them are useless fucking Dinosaurs like CNN that need to die anyway.
Not today.
Not.
Today.
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Thanks to the CNN overlords for caring about privacy. Blatant liars.
Youtube just recently started giving me issues on Librewolf. I actually paid for Youtube Premium for quite a while, let it lapse a couple of months ago, and I've been just watching with the ad blocker on. Having to go back to running stuff through Google Chrome and watching ads made me want to research "how can I watch videos without Youtube being involved" for the first time.
no issue with firefox and ublock origin just yet over here
Yeah, it seems like it's intermittent. Like there's either an arms race going on between uBlock and Youtube system, or else maybe they're slowly experimenting with the noose to see at what point and with what effectiveness the consumer parts of the equation will start choking up money again.
YouTube has been blocking me for a couple of months now, with one or two short breaks. I have Firefox and uBlock Origin. Even after I whitelisted YouTube, the blocking continues.
Piped: piped.video Invidious: yewtu.be
Those would be good places to start, if you still want YouTube content without the YouTube front-end.
It might be a little surprising given what I literally just said, but I am not unreservedly in favor of just grabbing someone else's content from someone else's server and then playing it without the ads that pay for the hosting bills for the origin server.
I realize I'm probably in the minority in that, but I feel like a fully off-Youtube video hosting solution might be a better way.
I think that's a very valid point, because that's literally what Google does with AMP links...
Haha that's actually a really good point
Google is the 4th richest company in the world... Besides they don't deserve a dime from you, fuck them.
It's not about them; it's about me. They'll be fine whatever any of us does, yes.
In this case, the someone else is Alphabet megacorp. I wouldn't waste any concern on them. The content is still hosted by YouTube, just played through the invidious instance.
To do away with all those concerns, you could self-host invidious, or donate to the instance you choose to use if self-hosting is outside of your technical prowess. If you want to support certain creators, donate to them directly instead.
It really gets to be a lot of edge cases to keep track of nowadays though, am I the only one? I mean the collection of scripts I have to keep track of to keep everything running as normal feels like the beginning of a new operating system.
In hosting invidious or what? I've got it running pretty maintenance free in a docker LXC in Proxmox and use Twingate for access to it and everything else outside my home network. There was a learning curve to set up, but there's plenty of yt tutorials to guide you through.
I’ve got it running pretty maintenance free in a docker LXC in Proxmox and use Twingate for access to it and everything else outside my home network.
Read that sentence back to yourself and tell me there isn't a lot to keep track of. Remember, this is specifically for solving 1 issue. Sysadmins and hard core masochists will learn every framework and take a scalpel to both software and hardware if needed, but that is not 99% of the world's demographic.
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I get what you’re saying, but the simple fact is that most of the content is on YouTube. An alternative would be better (and PeerTube might get there one day), but you’d be very limited in your choices if you avoided YT entirely. Also, I can’t personally feel too bad about “stealing” from YouTube.
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is it just me or 3rd party instances really so slow thats unwatchable?
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Thanks for caring about my privacy, CNN, sorry I couldn't be more helpful in facilitating your solid privacy measures.
If it were working "as intended", the site wouldn't know you're there. 🤌🏼
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good enough.
Does this crap still appear when you disable JavaScript?
I would never do that to CNN.
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You can be more helpful, though.
Go to a different website.
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