This is how I KNOW it works as intended

Thanks for caring about my privacy, CNN, sorry I couldn't be more helpful in facilitating your solid privacy measures.
- You can be more helpful, though.
  Go to a different website.
- If it were working "as intended", the site wouldn't know you're there. 🤌🏼
  
  Don't let perfect be the enemy of good enough.
- "You can totally trust us bro"
- Does this crap still appear when you disable JavaScript?
  
  I would never do that to CNN.
  
  It works as it should although not as intended.

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! :)
  
  Pretty sure CNN is (willfully) misinterpreting the law. The EU is definitely not prohibiting them from just turning off the tracking without providing a choice.

Hahaha! "We need access to your private data to protect your privacy." We've come full circle.

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.
- That’s why places like Lemmy and Mastodon are nice, even if big corpo buys up some instances, there’s still the option to just start free ones elsewhere.

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.
- 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.
  
  is it just me or 3rd party instances really so slow thats unwatchable?
  
  Yew a kind of coniferous tree which has red, berry-ike fruits, most parts of which are highly poisonous.
- 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.
  
  It seems that a lot of folk have wildly different experiences on wild variety of browsers and hardware. I use Mullvad VPN and I think their new DNS blockers seem to eradicate advertisements even on Spotify Free. I also don't think Google made the adblock rollout global, but did if for whatever subsections of the network. Looks like they've backed off for now, even, no doubt a time out to calibrate the evil cheater detecting algos...
- A super lightweight option for viewing videos that I don't see mentioned often is drag and dropping the link into MPV.
- Freetube
- What problems are you facing?
  Switch on advanced mode in uBlock Origin, disable everything from third parties on youtube.com, then selectively enable the script for youtube's content server and a couple more that I don't remember.
  You'll never see advertisements and issues with playback again
  
  It was just for one day, videos would hang forever when trying to load in Librewolf. From Chrome they played fine.
  I may not want to invest all that much energy into the arms race game if it starts recurring; I may just switch to one of the let-us-steal-it-from-Youtube-for-you mirror services.
  
  Or just wait a little while, purge the filter cache, update your filters, and try again.

Tangentially, CNN does have a text-mostly version: lite.cnn.com
- Huh. Must be leftover from the early days of the mobile Internet. Kinda like Reddit's old mobile site (which now just redirects to Reddit's current mobile site).
  
  old.reddit.com’s not working for you? How about reddit.com/.i?
- Wow, I didn't know this existed. Thanks for sharing!
- Nah I'm good.

CNN Management: I’m worried that since our purchase by a right-wing nut job and our spectacular idiot explosion of the last CEO, that we’re still in danger of being considered a valid corporate news outlet. What can we do?
CNN Schmuck: We could force mandatory tracking and ads on all website visitors.
CNN Management: Brilliant!
toilet flushing noises
- I'm pretty sure you could argue that CNN is a lot of things but right wing is not one of them.
  
  CNN Staff Fears Right-Wing Billionaire Will Turn It Into a Dumpster Fire
  
  right compared to actual leftists (not liberals)

Oh no! Anyway...
- Ha ha hah!

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.

I haven't really looked into it too much, but... Aren't they actually right in this case?
Sure, reading "we can't protect your privacy because you're using privacy-centric extension..." feels like bullshit, but from how I understand it based on the screenshot, the issue is that you have blocked the cookie permissions pop-up, whose main reason is to give you an option to opt-out of any tracking cookies, thus protecting your privacy. While also being required by law.
However, this depends on how exactly is the law formulated. How does it deals with a case where you don't accept, nor decline any cookies, and just ignore it? Are they not allowed to save any cookie until you accept it and specify what exactly can they save? Or should they not let you use the site until you accept it?
I vaguely remember that it used to be enough to just have a OK-able warning that this site is using cookies, but then it changed to include a choice to opt-out. Which could indicate that unless you opt-out, which they are required to give you a chance to, they can use whatever tracking cookies they want. And if that is the case, this message is actually correct.
- In the EU they must assume you have opted out until you explicitly opt in. blocking the popuip by law, must be treated as opting out. or to be more specific, its aconsent thing. they must assume they do not have consent until you explicitly give it.if this popup is in the EU, its a violation to my knowledge as it is forcing the user to change theirbrowsers settings or opt into something not necessary.
- Right? About what? Legally? Morally? Not-being-cunts-ally? Fuck CNN man, laws schmaws, they are doing everything they can to skirt it, please.

I'm afraid that protection might not last long.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/brave-to-end-strict-fingerprinting-protection-as-it-breaks-websites/
- We are just rocks tumbling down a cliff side.
  
  An interesting note-
  Another issue is that Strict mode is used by roughly 0.5% of Brave's users, with the rest using the default setting, which is the Standard mode.
  This low percentage actually makes these users more vulnerable to fingerprinting despite them using the more aggressive blocker, because they constitute a discernible subset of users standing out from the rest.

Thanks to the CNN overlords for caring about privacy. Blatant liars.

CNN might be the only site I've seen that actually checks if you have made a cookie choice then. The whole cookie acceptance thing is dumb, but they are following the law.
Thankfully there is a plan that EU will make changes fo current policy so those popups might go away.
- The plan should be "Tracking opt-in required - no banners or notifications allowed."

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. :)
- I use a spoof agent, that could be the problem, if, as you say, anyone would really consider it a problem not reaching fucking CNN.

The world turned upside dooooowwwwn 🎵
- I'll counter with
  I don't want to set the world on fire

I'm a noob... But hear me out. Does anyone make a browser extension that fools the site into thinking you've accepted the cookie(s) when you really haven't?
- Does cookie autodelete count?
  
  of course not
- well, if the website thinks that it is allowed to store cookies, it will. but cookies make you easy to track across sessions.
  generally i've found that changing the useragent and/or vpn location will work.
  
  Personally I find a good high caliber handgun to work most of the time also.
- istilldontcareaboutcookies

Another innovative way to loose readers. Btw I mean no way to utilize CNN in any type of medium is helpful. But some would disagree.

CNN fucks. :)

Looks fine on my end. On firefox with ubo

Weird, I don't have this. Also installing the Bypass Paywall extension might help if it comes up.
- Thanks for the tip but I'm good. I'm not going to waste more energy fighting to read whatever CNN has to say if they take such issue with my "browser configuration".

(i don't use brave browser btw)

Please dont post pictures of text without transcribing the text.
- [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]
- 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.
- intrigued by the fact that this is hated so much. It's a courteous ask, and something you probably should be doing. Especially if you can just copy and paste the majority of it.
  I try to do it when possible.