Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "David B." Newsgroups: uk.comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Illegal weather forecast website? Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2025 08:13:58 +0000 Lines: 46 Message-ID: References: <1rkpr8a.1h99tyk1xh8qvgN%liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> <31173b99-6ab5-4f9e-88bd-6234e61510e3@scorecrow.com> <10dhvor$35m4l$1@alphabravo.eternal-september.org> <10dkkdf$3sfqc$1@dont-email.me> Reply-To: boaterdave@hotmail.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net prdLuFkYJmYU9jBXc/aAYgIZQZajuHiPvk0KX6Iip5Fx61F3E+ Cancel-Lock: sha1:XMh3EYlmJU9QLTiJyNw2QSUVMk8= sha256:3BxnpLdYDX5KGQ/UxLt03xNTuct/pY+hb8ZFP9jpNns= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: <10dkkdf$3sfqc$1@dont-email.me> Xref: csiph.com uk.comp.sys.mac:182146 On 26/10/2025 07:59, John Hill wrote: > On 25 Oct 2025 at 07:55:07 BST, "Alan B" > 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: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> 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)