@jon @gothintheshell yeah it baffles me how this is legal. If I actually care to get around these, because an article looks worth reading, it's bypassed usually with no pay wall sites. This makes the whole thing double nonsense.
@LuluHelle @jon yeah I don't understand it either, as consent should be freely given not coerced out of you - if you want to visit a site.
Granted, that tells you all you need to know about the sites which do follow that model - and in most cases I find it's sites which like to sell themselves as keeping information and news free from bias/independent and available, etc. yet they are putting up barriers to that information be openly available for all. 😕
@gothintheshell @jon agreed, with the occasional shitty local paper who are desperate. The latter are the ones I use sneaky methods to bypass. Often they have stories that are locally relevant and not covered much elsewhere.