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    Amazon begins temperature checks and will provide surgical masks at warehouses

    (www.reuters.com)
    265 points ajaviaad | 14 comments | 02 Apr 20 14:47 UTC | HN request time: 1.335s | source | bottom
    1. reaperducer ◴[02 Apr 20 15:19 UTC] No.22759971[source]▶
    For those interested in reading the actual journalism, not a blog re-writing someone else's work:

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-amazon...

    The HN link should probably be changed.

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    2. Alex3917 ◴[02 Apr 20 15:46 UTC] No.22760284[source]▶
    For investigative journalism that makes sense. But for press release type content, if anything it's probably more ethical to link to the blogspam version than the original content. Otherwise you're just financially rewarding the "journalists" who only publish positive things about Bezos, the whitehouse, video games, or whatever, and economically punishing the folks we need to hold them accountable.
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    3. ◴[02 Apr 20 16:05 UTC] No.22760483[source]▶
    4. Angostura ◴[02 Apr 20 16:13 UTC] No.22760568[source]▶
    The link should be changed anyway - that cookie control thing is the worst ever, offering no control.
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    5. bdcravens ◴[02 Apr 20 16:32 UTC] No.22760768[source]▶
    Perhaps, but given the number of articles on HN that are completely inaccessible due to being paywalled, that makes for a low bar of acceptance.
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    6. jwr ◴[02 Apr 20 16:47 UTC] No.22760920[source]▶
    The one at Reuters isn't that much better. If you refuse, Reuters will immediately forget your "Managed Consent" and slam you in the face again on your next visit.

    I suspect they have no problem remembering your consent forever, it's just refusal that gets immediately forgotten.

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    7. snissn ◴[02 Apr 20 17:00 UTC] No.22761063[source]▶
    Techcrunch is stealing my back button too
    8. tastyfreeze ◴[02 Apr 20 17:09 UTC] No.22761171{3}[source]▶
    If you reject their use of cookies how are they supposed to remember your rejection the next time you visit?
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    9. CamperBob2 ◴[02 Apr 20 17:10 UTC] No.22761186{3}[source]▶
    No offense, but are you sure you grok the whole 'cookie' concept?
    10. mattigames ◴[02 Apr 20 17:19 UTC] No.22761281{4}[source]▶
    If the law doesn't make a single exception so the webpage can store a boolean value into a cookie to know this user doesn't want to be bothered with any _other_ cookies the law is wrong.
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    11. DevKoala ◴[02 Apr 20 17:24 UTC] No.22761332{5}[source]▶
    Any single exception can be a privacy attack surface. The law is correct.
    12. stuaxo ◴[02 Apr 20 17:32 UTC] No.22761420{5}[source]▶
    It does make exception for cookies used to make the site function.
    13. dang ◴[02 Apr 20 17:35 UTC] No.22761443[source]▶
    Ok, we've changed to that from https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/02/amazon-begins-running-temp....
    14. tomhoward ◴[04 Apr 20 14:45 UTC] No.22778494{3}[source]▶
    Inaccessible links aren't allowed on HN according to the FAQs [1].

    Paywalled articles are only allowed if there is a known, easily-accessible workaround, and someone usually posts this in the comments.

    [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html