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Somewhat off-topic but...

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I really wonder why a site that displays nothing but text and images requires cookies... I don't need it to set cookies. Oh well, if it was a truly profound message, it would be available on a site that does not require cookies. I cannot be bothered to whitelist nautil.us too.

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I like sites that do this. Then I swiftly close the page, and update my block list; never to be bothered with their fluff content ever agian.

We need more of these sites to block all the content as soon as you land on their page.

Now a really awesome feature is if ycombo news could detect sites like this, and just not show them on the front page at all.

So shit like "suscribe to our newsletter" doesn't popin the second time you visit.

Disabling cookies degrades the experience IMO, u get no performance boost and u get no security benefits other than them not being able to store variables on your browser. Did you also disable localStorage?

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