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Mwa@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Gurfaild@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It probably is illegal in the EU, but I have no idea whether it would be illegal in the UK, too.

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  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    As of last I checked, people are trying it out and seeing if they can get away with it under the way GDPR is enforced. Hopefully that gets hammered out in court.

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  • rustydrd@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    To my knowledge, the problem is the same in the EU, but there are legal initiatives by some NGOs (NOYB) that argue that having only these two options (pay for subscription or consent to personal information being sold) should be illegal, and that newspapers should be required to offer a third option (pay only the amount your information would be sold for, which is only a few cents, without the subscription).

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    • phlaym@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      they’re not only arguing it, they’re doing successfully so

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      • rustydrd@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Very happy to see that, thanks for the pointer!

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  • Mwa@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    True that would make sense

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• cosmicrookie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Its not even an option. They will still use cookies even if you pay. They’d just use it for their own use

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  • Mwa@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    ohh

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