That DEA agent's 'credit card' could be eavesdropping on you
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·September 21, 2025junto
That website is an absolute eye cancer on mobile. Actual reading content is curtailed to a third of the screen. Its defaulted legitimate interest cookies include a bunch of predatory firms including Facebook (and I’m in the EU).
In one hand these publishers have just cause in complaining about companies like Google and Apple stealing their content, but they really are not helping themselves either. Their website are completely user unfriendly.
With that said:
ocdtrekkie
It's much more readable by default on an iPhone than the archive.is version. Viewport seems fine, don't know what you are using. I have a bunch of gaps in the page content which are probably ads my Pihole ate, but it's pretty readable.
benregenspan
I've seen worse, there's at least not much layout shift there.
People will complain about paywalls and they will complain about ads. The money needs to come from somewhere. For ad-supported sites, increased ad blocker use means higher saturation of ads for everyone else.
It's always very nice to see a nonprofit journalism outlet with no ads, but donor funding does not scale up to a large newsroom.
The title sounds sinister.
Sure, there are abuses of power. You can disagree with policy of prohibition.
The DEA also has important job to do combatting really bad people. Because there is due process and because they don't just disappear people, they need to collect evidence. They can't walk in with a mic strapped to their lapel. A credit card mic seems pretty clever.