Not sure how long this has been a thing but I was surprised to see that you cannot view the content without either agreeing to all or paying to reject.
Only answer is to ban tracking cookies
this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2024
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How can you pay to block cookies if they would need a cookie to remember that you paid?
What do you mean? Those are standard cookie banners. What The Mirror does is different
That's insane. I always leave a website whenever it tries anything even close to that. These companies are taking the piss more and more.
Well ok, they have no GDPR.
German news outlets all do it. The data protection agencies have sadly so far ruled it's ok (there are still ongoing lawsuits afaik).
Every outlet in Italy as well.
It's standard practice in France too. This is not forbidden by RGPD.
you Frenchies and your fucked up transposed acronyms
Shut the fuck up or I'll go OTAN on your ass.
Careful, your 5.56 OTAN bullets might shoot backwards.
I don't think they repealed it. And besides, it applies to EU citizens regardless.
“News” outlet? Hardly. The mirror is basically Russian propaganda.
I've seen this on a few sites. They aren't even allowed to make rejecting cookies more difficult than accepting them but right now the legal people are trying to educate before they starting enforcing these rules. I expect the lawyers at the Mirror know that this is illegal but think they can get away with it.
All those things like having to "customise" your cookies to turn them all off, and "legitimate interest" is all illegal under the rules but they're trying their luck.
It's a litmus test for me. Just tells me not to use their site.
Daily mail does it as well. Cancer. But not hard to circumvent with Firefox and some extensions.
Or you could edit cookies with devtools.
Or just use uBlock Origin ;)
At work they don't let us install ublock or FF so I'm stuck with stock Chrome and stock Microsoft Chrome 🙁
The Mirror website is cancer. I use NoScript and it won't load without allowing about 50 fuckkng scripts. MSN too. I avoid both but occasionally click on a link from elsewhere
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