That has to be a GDPR violation, right?
No, the EU does not force entities to provide Internet services for free.
You have the choice. Pay with your data or your money. I hate it too but what can you do?
Why are you getting downvoted? You are right.
I think this is only in UK
Ah, right, the joys of Brexit…
Wasn’t Meta doing this exact thing just found to be illegal
Privacy - it’s your choice
You know, just choose to afford privacy.
Let us track you to view this article.
or…
Pay us with a trackable payment method to view this article.
Catch-22 Surveillance Economy
I’d rather they put a webasm crypto miner on the page and say “mine for 10s to view this article” or something
Is it really so hard to buy a disposable visa or MasterCard? Can even pay bums to buy them for you.
its friction, a really really high amount of friction…
Not to mention many of the subscription sites (like newspapers) WILL NOT ACCEPT a prepaid card, or a virtual card - they flat refuse them. It has to be a card they can auto-bill forever. Not everyone does this, but enough do that its really rather bothersome friction.
Seems strange to refuse payments but Im sure there is some accounting person who’s figured it out.
Whatever you do, don’t post a link to that article to Archive.ph!
Seriously, it harms rich people by not letting them sell your data.
I don’t see what’s the issue.
They want to get paid in some way and they offer the reader the option: pay with your privacy or pay with your money?
Or feel free to close the tab if both options are unacceptable. There are a lot of spamblogs written by chatgpt that allow to read the regurgitated content without accepting cookies, for example.
Maybe it’s infuriating because if you really want to read the content you’re forced to waste 1 second to right click => open in incognito window or waste 1 minute to sign up for a subscription, but I don’t think it’s asshole design, because they have to pay bills. You don’t want sponsored news pieces and fake reviews in that website either, no?
Now if it was like Facebook where the option is “pay with your privacy or pay with your privacy AND with your money”, that would be asshole design
Opening in incognito doesnt give you any privacy, they still going to match you using IP and browser fingerprint to get (almost) the same person matching as allowing all cookies.
Cookies just makes it easier.
For me if its a page I opened first time I will just close it and open next search result.
If this page/domain is something I see quite often then depending on the price I might pay.
Paying full monthly price for single page visit is stupid they will have a hard time to convince me to pay. And paying with privacy is out for me.
Waiting for time when they start using centralized payment system that will allow me to pay small amount per visit, like lightning or BAT.
But at that point is paranoia. If you’re worried about tracking via IP address, then there are no websites that you can visit. You can count on a single hand the websites that do no logging whatsoever. Even if you reject cookies, the IP address is always visible server side. Better to sell all your devices and go back living completely offline like in the 80s.
Not true, I’m just fighting the myth that incognito mode gives you (any) privacy.
Company have many legal reasons to store my IP and they do so, don’t have a problem with it, but they can’t use it legally for advertising without consent. You are agreeing to tracking, that in turn allow them to use your IP for tracking, it doesnt matter if its in incognito mode as now they can track you legally also outside. So your comment about using incognito is just plain wrong.
Ultimatily it’s about the rules (including gdpr), I don’t agree/approve to be tracked and don’t want my visit to be linked to me, so if the website like that don’t want to provide content in exchange for ads (like in the OP case above) then they don’t need to.
I fully know they can (and probably doing it without asking because they can) track my activity to serve targeted ads. I just voice my disgust and voice my disapproval with the state the advertising is now, and propose a solution that I personally am fine with it.
Why do you think I’m using adblock and pi-hole for?
Yeah it’s this or track you anyway like most others
Social media ≠ news though. Giants like Facebook can suffer imo
Facebook tracking pixel? Google analytics adsense tracking?
It’s not about first party website cookies. Its third parties from over 100 other ad companies
This is why I use a script blocker to block the scripts from marketing domains. From what I have been able to see the cookies aren’t written because the code that writes it is not allowed to execute. It also stops script injections and other malware payloads that require extra-domain linkages to scripts.
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A normal amount of adverts I think are fair though. Asking to get the content, not paying anything for it, and refusing to watch adverts is just a bit too cheeky, in my opinion.
No. Most other sites allow you to refuse personalised tracking cookies which doesn’t stop advertising in general but stops targeted ads and tracking cookies
They only need to serve ads related to the conent. Because that is most likely something im interested in as I’m visiting the page for that. They don’t need any permissions/cookies for that.
