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Being forced to accept all cookies unless I pay (lemmy.world)
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[–] Chozo@fedia.io 1 points 8 months ago

Privacy - it's your choice

You know, just choose to afford privacy.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Let us track you to view this article.

or....

Pay us with a trackable payment method to view this article.

Catch-22 Surveillance Economy

I'd rather they put a webasm crypto miner on the page and say "mine for 10s to view this article" or something

[–] rekorse@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Is it really so hard to buy a disposable visa or MasterCard? Can even pay bums to buy them for you.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

its friction, a really really high amount of friction.....

Not to mention many of the subscription sites (like newspapers) WILL NOT ACCEPT a prepaid card, or a virtual card - they flat refuse them. It has to be a card they can auto-bill forever. Not everyone does this, but enough do that its really rather bothersome friction.

[–] rekorse@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Seems strange to refuse payments but Im sure there is some accounting person who's figured it out.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 1 points 8 months ago

The people they lose from not accepting pre-paid and virtual credit cards costs them less money then the people who forget they signed up for a auto-renewing subscription and pay for months/years without realizing it.

[–] Adalast@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

This is why I use a script blocker to block the scripts from marketing domains. From what I have been able to see the cookies aren't written because the code that writes it is not allowed to execute. It also stops script injections and other malware payloads that require extra-domain linkages to scripts.

[–] jedibob5@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

That has to be a GDPR violation, right?

[–] topartinno@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think this is only in UK

[–] jedibob5@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Ah, right, the joys of Brexit...

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I've seen this recently at German newspaper websites too.

[–] weker01@sh.itjust.works 0 points 8 months ago (3 children)

No, the EU does not force entities to provide Internet services for free.

You have the choice. Pay with your data or your money. I hate it too but what can you do?

[–] steuls@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

While no it cant force it for free and they are free to have an Ad based version the cookies could be considered a violation of the ePrivacy regulation:

Allow users to access your service even if they refuse to allow the use of certain cookies

Make it as easy for users to withdraw their consent as it was for them to give their consent in the first place.

Although the EU has been pretty lax in terms of enforcing a lot of these regulations

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip -1 points 8 months ago

This is a newspaper, not an ISP.

But from what I understand of the law, what you are saying is true