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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by cosmicrookie@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world

At this point its getting ridiculous.

Their point 2 even states that even if you do pay them, they will still use cookies to track you and show personalised content

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[-] Mwa@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago

Paid cookies opt out should be illegal

[-] Gurfaild@feddit.org 17 points 1 month ago

It probably is illegal in the EU, but I have no idea whether it would be illegal in the UK, too.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 month ago

As of last I checked, people are trying it out and seeing if they can get away with it under the way GDPR is enforced. Hopefully that gets hammered out in court.

[-] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

To my knowledge, the problem is the same in the EU, but there are legal initiatives by some NGOs (NOYB) that argue that having only these two options (pay for subscription or consent to personal information being sold) should be illegal, and that newspapers should be required to offer a third option (pay only the amount your information would be sold for, which is only a few cents, without the subscription).

[-] phlaym@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 month ago
[-] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Very happy to see that, thanks for the pointer!

[-] Mwa@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

True that would make sense

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