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Click on topics and suscribe to 'Breaking News' and any other heading you'd like to appear in your sidebar.

Been there, done that...

I normally leave cookies disabled unless I'm posting. Now I cannot get a breaking news sidebar unless I have cookies enabled. I have no desire to leave cookies enabled, because I'll ultimately forget to turn them back off. Therefore, despite the fact that the "Breaking News" sidebar technically still exists, in my case, it is effectively gone. Bummer.

Unless I am mistaken, lurkers that have not yet registered will also not see the breaking news sidebar. IMHO, this is not a good feature.

I hate cookies too. If you're using IE, you might try doing [tools] -> options -> Security...
Under "Internet zone", select "Custom Settings" then disable cookies. Then go to "Trusted Zone", enable cookies and put FR in the trusted zone. I use that for java, etc.

Problem with that & cookies is it's impossible on other sites where you want preference cookies, but not the others.

Because of that, I downloaded Cookie Pal. I am a minimalist - don't like toys & playing with shareware, but this program has been a Godsend. It's small, zero bugs, and allows you to see every individual cookie offered and select "accept," "reject," "always accept", "always reject" and "reject all from this domain". After a few days surfing, you will have created your own custom filters.
I couldn't do without it.

(BTW, I have no interest in the co, lol. Just a happy user. =] )