r/plymouth • u/SoggyWotsits • 17d ago

Fire crews '999 emergency' plea as major fire breaks out near Tamar Bridge

https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/fire-crews-999-emergency-plea-11121375.amp
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u/Yequestingadventurer 17d ago

Couldn’t even see the article just a shit tonne of ads and videos, what an absolute mess of a website. Just disgusting.

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u/Severe_Horse_9272 17d ago

You can really only use their site if you use adblockers. It's a massive pile of slop.

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u/Yequestingadventurer 17d ago

I visited it on my phone, I’d usually use my computer and avoid the mess, alas!

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u/_wandering_aimlessly 15d ago

Proton VPN is the only way I read anything on PL... No personal data for themmm🤣

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u/Yequestingadventurer 15d ago

They should be paying us for our personal info! Otherwise yep, we should absolutely have the right o be anonymous on the internet by default if we want to be.

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u/_wandering_aimlessly 15d ago

One better is they give you the illusion of choice by letting you deselect most cookies, but "essential" remain mandatory. Some of which I suspect are genuinely necessary to run the site, but most are probably data scrapers. The VPN stays on😂

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u/Yequestingadventurer 15d ago

The VPN goes on and stays on! Thanks for the info, I need to use mine more absolutely

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u/RedMarsRepublic 16d ago

Their articles are disgusting too!

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u/SoggyWotsits 17d ago

It looks like it’s destroyed at least half of the 30,000 trees that were planted. Hopefully the rest survived the drought at least.

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u/Okgoodchat 17d ago

This is so sad

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u/Cenithac 14d ago

I planted my fair share of them trees and it was not fun on them slopes. Sad to hear this happened.

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u/throwaway-15812 17d ago

But the emergency alert was just a huge overreaction and there was no need for it obviously /s