Same in Germany and Switzerland. I just close the site immediately when I see this kind of blackmailing. Or use 12ft.io if I absolutely want to read the article.
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Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months agoThere are multiple French websites that do this. It is legal (otherwise these websites would not do this anymore, it’s been a while).
There is a popup asking you if you consent to get cookies (for advertisement). If you say “no”, it leads you to another popup with two choices :
- Change your decision and accept cookies
- Pay for a premium service without advertisements
MrPozor@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
That is just because the people who enforce the GDPR just haven’t come around to fining those websites.
That practice is still illegal.
Want to speed up the process? You can report those websites. The more reports the faster those get punished.
Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
No, that’s not that clear for the moment.
Let me explain the French case :
Here is a French website where the CNIL explains this :
cnil.fr/…/cookie-walls-la-cnil-publie-des-premier…
harlatan@feddit.de 11 months ago
Well, seems like my gdpr knowledge got too rusty. at least to me its an interesting topic to actualise