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Re: Illegal weather forecast website?

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From "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk>
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Subject Re: Illegal weather forecast website?
Date Sun, 26 Oct 2025 08:13:58 +0000
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On 26/10/2025 07:59, John Hill wrote:
> On 25 Oct 2025 at 07:55:07 BST, "Alan B" <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 24 Oct 2025 at 21:59:07 GMT+1, "Bruce" <07.013@scorecrow.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 24/10/2025 15:14, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
>>>> Selecting my local area from the Met Office website:
>>>>
>>>> <https://weather.metoffice.gov.uk/>
>>>>
>>>> used to display a fairly comprehensive weather foracast, today it
>>>> displayed a huge animation of clouds and a useless summary.  It also
>>>> displayed a message that if I wanted to see more information I would
>>>> have to turn on cookies.
>>>>
>>>> Surely this is illegal; the information displayed should be the same
>>>> regardless of the choice of cookies.
>>>
>>> Just tried it now using Safari. I declined cookies and was able to enter
>>> the name of my local area and see a forecast. I was able to click the
>>> "detailed forecast" tab and get more information without being asked to
>>> allow cookies.
>>>
>>> All links seemed to work and none asked me to enable cookies.
>>>
>>> In short, I couldn't reproduce what you saw.
>>
>> My problem with Safari on macOS26 - Version 26.0.1 (21622.1.22.11.15) is
>> displaying weather warnings. Click on a particular warning on the UK map to
>> get more details and a more or less blank window appears. No such problems
>> with Firefox. It's probably nothing to do with cookies but I suspect their
>> site is not totally Safari friendly. I've not checked for similar problams
>> with Safari on iOS and iPadOS yet.
> 
> I tried with Arc and while it had a different "look" it behaved perfectly.
> Mind you, I don't fuss much over cookies. So it may have asked when I first
> opened the new site; I would have just clicked Accept All and forgotton.
> 
> Old John.

This website appears to work perfectly here using Safari:-

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk

My Safari version is Version 18.6 (18621.3.11.19.1, 18621)

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