Link: https://web.archive.org/web/20230208175538/https://www.home-barista.com/repairs/hot-vs-cold-descaling-solution-t83993.html

First attempt to load this shitty Cloudflare page resulted in a forced cookie popup with no “reject all” option. There are ~50+ or so switches to click off spanning two tabs (one hidden way at the bottom in fine print for “vendors”). Fuck that.

Usually when I encounter this particular variety of shit I switch to “torsocks lynx '$URL'”. In this case, it gave a 403 claiming “enable javascript and cookies to continue” to Lynx.

Then I loaded the archive version in Firefox with js and animations both disabled, and finally the text was reachable. But then an animation at the bottom played anyway. So I had to disable still images to stop the animation (guessing the ad is an animated GIF).

What a disasterous display of web enshitification. Feel free to comment on how one might handle this in a more effortless way without agreeing to the cookies.

(asshole design candidate: #homebarista)