Here in Spain they started making the option to either subscribe… Or accept the ads/tracking…
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Vrtrx@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The cookies being pre selected is illegal in the EU. Although I’ve seen sites that don’t care and still enable them by default
XTornado@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Same in germany. That makes the whole thing even more useless, as everyone just is a subscription-based shit now…
XTornado@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
I would be ok with it honestly if they like allowed to select sites but they did this “content pass” which englobe a lot of sites and lot of them I don’t want them to see a single penny from me. If they fix that I am all in on it.
Wrrzag@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Just use reader mode, it bypasses all that shit.
XTornado@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Oh I am sure there are ways to bypass it. Just saying what they do.
RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Italy too.
Vrtrx@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Same with a lot of news outlets in Germany. Although it’s not that difficult for me to use only sites that allow disallowing every cookie or just bypass the cookie popup
Dicska@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The ones I’ve seen disable the ‘consent’ bits by default, but then there’s ‘vendor preferences’ where ‘legitimate interest’ is automatically ON in 58 places (I’m not exaggerating; I have counted it) and you have to manually off all of them.
When you click the question mark at ‘legitimate interest’, all it says is some vendors are not asking for your consent to use your data but collect it based on their legitimate interest.
It’s infinitely vague and it has the vibe of ‘I’m not going to ask for it, I will just take it and I will use it for whatever I want anyway’.