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Re: Illegal weather forecast website?

From "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk>
Newsgroups uk.comp.sys.mac
Subject Re: Illegal weather forecast website?
Date 2025-10-25 12:06 +0100
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On 25/10/2025 09:30, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
> 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.
> 
> I was using Firefox 129.0.2  I don't know if that made a difference.

The current version of Firefox is 144.0 (64-bit)

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Illegal weather forecast website? liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2025-10-24 15:14 +0100
  Re: Illegal weather forecast website? snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2025-10-24 15:40 +0100
    Re: Illegal weather forecast website? liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2025-10-24 17:48 +0100
  Re: Illegal weather forecast website? Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2025-10-24 17:06 +0200
    Re: Illegal weather forecast website? liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2025-10-25 09:30 +0100
  Re: Illegal weather forecast website? Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> - 2025-10-24 16:08 +0100
    Re: Illegal weather forecast website? liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2025-10-24 17:48 +0100
      Re: Illegal weather forecast website? Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2025-10-24 21:38 +0200
      Re: Illegal weather forecast website? Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> - 2025-10-24 20:46 +0100
  Re: Illegal weather forecast website? richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2025-10-24 17:13 +0000
    Re: Illegal weather forecast website? liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2025-10-25 09:30 +0100
      Re: Illegal weather forecast website? richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2025-10-25 11:23 +0000
  Re: Illegal weather forecast website? Bruce <07.013@scorecrow.com> - 2025-10-24 21:59 +0100
    Re: Illegal weather forecast website? Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-10-25 07:55 +0000
      Re: Illegal weather forecast website? John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> - 2025-10-26 07:59 +0000
        Re: Illegal weather forecast website? "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-10-26 08:13 +0000
      Re: Illegal weather forecast website? Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-10-29 11:22 +0000
    Re: Illegal weather forecast website? liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2025-10-25 09:30 +0100
      Re: Illegal weather forecast website? "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-10-25 12:06 +0100
  Re: Illegal weather forecast website? Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-10-26 08:06 +0000
    Re: Illegal weather forecast website? Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2025-10-26 10:23 +0000
      Re: Illegal weather forecast website? Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-10-26 21:05 +0000
  Re: Illegal weather forecast website? liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2025-10-27 08:44 +0000
    Re: Illegal weather forecast website? RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2025-10-27 09:27 +0000
      Re: Illegal weather forecast website? Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-10-28 11:28 +0000
        Re: Illegal weather forecast website? Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-10-28 11:41 +0000
          Re: Illegal weather forecast website? "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-10-28 14:02 +0000
          Re: Illegal weather forecast website? Graeme Wall <rail@greywall.demon.co.uk> - 2025-10-28 14:55 +0000
            Re: Illegal weather forecast website? Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-10-28 15:01 +0000
              Re: Illegal weather forecast website? Graeme Wall <rail@greywall.demon.co.uk> - 2025-10-29 08:11 +0000
                Re: Illegal weather forecast website? Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-10-29 11:30 +0000
                Re: Illegal weather forecast website? Graeme Wall <rail@greywall.demon.co.uk> - 2025-10-29 13:02 +0000
                Re: Illegal weather forecast website? Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-10-29 14:33 +0000
        Re: Illegal weather forecast website? Andy H <thewildrover@icloud.com> - 2025-10-29 22:44 +0000
          Re: Illegal weather forecast website? Bernd Froehlich <befr@eaglesoft.de> - 2025-10-30 07:38 +0000
            Re: Illegal weather forecast website? Andy H <thewildrover@icloud.com> - 2025-10-31 06:41 +0000

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