> Now what is interesting is that I don't remember being asked for consent for them to place a cookie to log the number of articles I read in a month as part of their sign-up funnel.
They could probably make this compliant by storing the counter in your local storage and never sending it anywhere - just having a piece of JS that essentially does: if(Storage.getItem("visits") > 6) { displaySignnupPopup(); }
Ah, when I used to bother with Proxomitron (https://www.proxomitron.info/), I could rewrite anything that went "over the wire" because it acts as a HTTP-proxy listening at localhost. I remember modifying Javascript lines so adding my own code was possible...
One could add an SSL library and basically MITM HTTPS connections, but I never tried that.
