You just need to decline to be tracked, and then follow the appropriate link on the text-only home page.

https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=614419275

Ah, didn't see the link was still under "Top news stories". Thanks.

Well it isn't always. If it isn't you have to copy the article ID from the URL. Also you don't get pictures. This clearly isn't GDPR-compliant.

With uBlock origin in block all third party assets, the article was fully readable without opting in to anything.

> Ironically, this article is not available without opting in to their tracking. Could someone post the plaintext link?

What are you seeing? I didn't see any consent popups on Firefox or Chrome (even with uBlock & NoScript disabled).

I'm using Firefox + uBlockOrigin + DuckDuckGo.

It's full page, not a popup or modal. Text:

By choosing “I agree” below, you agree that NPR’s sites use cookies, similar tracking and storage technologies, and information about the device you use to access our sites to enhance your viewing, listening and user experience, personalize content, personalize messages from NPR’s sponsors, provide social media features, and analyze NPR’s traffic. This information is shared with social media services, sponsorship, analytics and other third-party service providers.

Options:

- Agree and continue

- Decline and visit plain text site

Decline takes you to the homepage, which is literally plain text. Apparently it was too hard for them to provide some css. You have to search around for the content you were going to, ultimately ending up at this plain text page: https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=614419275

One can manually assemble a text-only url by taking the long number at the end of a standard url and using it as the sId parameter in the text-only link.

Apart from that, I've found no way of getting text-only links to articles that don't happen to be linked from the frontpage.

I use uBlock Origin, uMatrix and Decentraleyes Firefox addons and had no trouble viewing it...