@LuluHelle @gothintheshell I’m absolutely fuming that “pay not to be tracked” was found legal. GDPR had so much potential but of course the big corporations stepped right up to the line, and then made a business model out of crossing it.
@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.