[LINK] The Australian tells me cookies are NOT enabled, but cookies ARE enabled

[Kim Holburn]

How do you read anything on that site?  I just get the message:

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On 2014/Jun/02, at 1:04 PM, Karl Auer wrote:

> When I try to view a story at theaustralian.com.au, I get taken to a
> page telling me that cookies are not enabled. However, cookies ARE
> enabled for the site.
> 
> I am using Firefox and have allowed cookies for that site specifically.
> 
> Thing is, the site used to work fine with just this setup. Have they
> become more picky? In particular, do they now perhaps require
> third-party cookies to be enabled? Their cookie-enabling instructions do
> say to enable third party cookies, but they also say to enable all
> cookies everywhere, which is unnecessarily broad.
> 
> I've emailed them to ask, but if they need third party cookies I just
> won't be reading the Australian online any more. I can see no legitimate
> reason to *require* third-party cookies.
> 
> Regards, K.
> 
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