This has to be against some kind of law right?
Even if you pay, you’ll still be tracked.
Don’t worry, once they have your credit card number they’ll track you even more. At best you’ll get a £2.35 cheque from a class action lawsuit in seven years, assuming they ever even get caught.
thank brexiters for that, it’s illegal in eu
Remind me why we left again
Racism
When are you coming back?
Why is bro replying to a 2 week old comment💀
Cuz I can Also I sort by new comments, I dunno who put it back to the top
To reduce regulations and taxes on rich people, mainly.
Haven’t these cookie paywalls been ruled illegal?
Only in the EU apparently. Although, I could’ve sworn cookie paywalls were breaking some law
Not really, it’s just phrased differently to the usual signup pitch, they’re putting in a middle ground between full “premium” subscribers (whatever that is) and public access with tracking and ad metrics.
Companies need revenue to operate. They get that revenue from advertising data and selling ad slots, or subscriptions. Whether they actually cease all tracking and ad metrics when you subscribe is something I’d doubt though, and that could be a case for the legal system if they didn’t do what they claim.
Personally, this behaviour is the point where I would not consider the site to be valuable enough to bother with.
Wasn’t it illegal to not let a user reject a cookie? In the EU at least
Yep, and not just that. The rejection has to be just as easy as accepting it
This has to be against some kind of law right?
Only in the EU.
Anyways I think that “pay or consent” model isn’t that bad. You either pay with your data or your money. Seems fine to me though pay only would be better. Everyone is used to getting everything online for free. It has to change now imo. The internet isn’t a bunch of hobby forum projects anymore. The price of running a popular website is big and idk if privacy-respecting ads can give enough profit at this point.
It is bad. Companies could just have some fucking standards.
The issue is profit-motivated companies existing in the first place.
Rather, they should be self-led, and motivated towards the best labour environment as according to their workers. That means their workers feeling accepted, heard and listened to, being able to not only live but also thrive. And all that, while still making the organisation more efficient.
That’s true but absolutely impossible to achieve.
I mean, if you don’t want to participate in the advertisement based monetization model, which you shouldn’t, then the alternative to it is a subscription model.
these sites aren’t free. we have the right to block advertising content and trackers on our browsers but that doesn’t mean we have the right to block advertising while retaining no payment access.
