That has to be a GDPR violation, right?
I’ve seen this recently at German newspaper websites too.
I think this is only in UK
Privacy - it’s your choice
You know, just choose to afford privacy.
Whatever you do, don’t post a link to that article to Archive.ph!
Seriously, it harms rich people by not letting them sell your data.
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.
I don’t see what’s the issue.
They want to get paid in some way and they offer the reader the option: pay with your privacy or pay with your money?
Or feel free to close the tab if both options are unacceptable. There are a lot of spamblogs written by chatgpt that allow to read the regurgitated content without accepting cookies, for example.
Maybe it’s infuriating because if you really want to read the content you’re forced to waste 1 second to right click => open in incognito window or waste 1 minute to sign up for a subscription, but I don’t think it’s asshole design, because they have to pay bills. You don’t want sponsored news pieces and fake reviews in that website either, no?
Now if it was like Facebook where the option is “pay with your privacy or pay with your privacy AND with your money”, that would be asshole design
A normal amount of adverts I think are fair though. Asking to get the content, not paying anything for it, and refusing to watch adverts is just a bit too cheeky, in my opinion.
