@ignaloidas ahhhh, one thing could be that they absolutely depend on tracking everything the user do on their website. I've heard that news sites are extremely hostile about that in that they can track what you're reading by the second and know how long you're staying on an article, so that they can know what and how to write something for maximum clicks and time, which is probably one reason of why US news sites are so shit, it's a statistic race to the bottom

I ain't sure how true that is, but it would definitively explain it and the gdpr requirements would put a big wrench in that