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Hey late-stage capitruleism, how's it going? Oh cool even worse then (startrek.website)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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(also this feels hella iffy legally speaking)

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Good thing this was forbidden in the EU a few years back. As a user, you can't refuse "necessary cookies" but those from third parties you can (e.g. Google analytics). Imposing personalized ads if you don't pay is definitely forbidden in the EU I'd say

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Really? Because literally every German news website does this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah. I thought this was literally what was banned but seems that it isn't 🤷

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They use every loophole legally available to them (you know what I mean, the button "I agree to sell my soul" being a hundred times bigger than the link to "I'd like to review your data collection and say which analytics service I adhere to"). But I haven't seen a website where they threaten compulsory personalized ads if you don't pay. It's generally "pay or you get cookies". But I tought those weren't third party cookies, just in-site ones.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I thought it was illegal to have the opt out be smaller than the agree. Even stack overflow had to comply

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Spanish newspapers were doing it until very recently but this was released a couple months ago: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_3582