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The LA Times website is now unavailable in the EU because it isn't GDPR compliant. If I had to guess why, it would involve the unscrupulous state of web ads. Creepy personalization is my second guess. Whoopsie.
Swiped from https://twitter.com/AlecMuffett/status/999616307241906176 on birdsite:
NPR has the best creative solution. (You can shortcut it by replacing "www" with "text" in the URL.) https://computerfairi.es/media/_7qtaotMWoqCRAl_vqU https://computerfairi.es/media/pgoIMpkj0wtCx3WaMEg
@arielmt Ah, *sigh*, reminds me of back when web sites routinely had text-only or "PDA" versions with only a minimum of markup...
Double whoops on me, I forgot to add context with a non-LA Times story link: https://slate.com/technology/2018/05/the-la-times-isnt-letting-europeans-read-its-site-thanks-to-the-eus-new-internet-rules.html
Happy GDPR day, Europe! I read that it won't actually fix anything, but like shining a light under the kitchen cabinets & sending the roaches scurrying for cover, it'll reveal just how bad data mishandling has gotten.