Was trying to read a news story and… What fresh shitfuckery is this? Why do I now have to pay money to a company just for the privilege of not being spied upon and not getting your cookies that I don’t want or need? How is this even legal?
RE: “Why are you even reading that shitrag?” – I clicked on a link someone posted in another sublemmit, didn’t realise it was the Sun till after. I do not read the Sun on the regular, chill. My point stands regardless that this is extremely shitty and should probably not be allowed.
Time for 12ft.io I guess.
How is that not extortion?
Because you aren’t compelled to use their site.
True, but shouldn’t I be able to use it if I want to without having to choose between paying money or being spied on?
The only other option I can see would be ads – but I’m betting you’d just use an ad-blocker.
Well, the fact that when there are ads, there’s always like 20 of them is another issue… But yeah, I don’t even care about ads but as I see it I should have a right to privacy without having to pay for it.
You don’t have to pay for privacy. You still have that right.
What you don’t have is the right to use that particular website without either paying for it, or allowing cookies.
You aren’t a victim of anything here.
You are part of the problem here
How so?
It’s the Sun. No one should use their site. They’re doing you a favour by showing you they’re assholes the second you land on their site.
Bild is doing this shit too.
In Europe? I would think there would be some European counsel to protest that…
Yeah… That’s what I fear is that once one has started doing it, others will follow.
“To change all cookie settings click_here” <-- this is the bit you want. It’s free to reject all the cookies yourself.
How is this even legal?
Because Brits voted Brrrrexit?
We still have the UK implementation of GDPR. That didn’t go away when we left the EU.
We won’t have any changes to it that might have happened since brexit but we didn’t remove the law either.
Yeah I learned of this before, you are 100% correct. The EU GDPR is in place for any UK company doing business in the EU and the UK GDPR visa versa, but they differ on topics as immigration, national security and such as you might know anyhow. The rest is very similar.
This is a US website no?
Not any factor lotion will protect your mental health from “the Sun” o_O
the Sun would personally sell your organs if it could
It looks like the big buttons are “accept all” or “pay for no ads”, but the cookiescan still be tuned with the link under the “accept all”?
Visiting the Murdoch-owned Sun was your first mistake. Everything they do to you after that is your own fault.,
Might as well hand your credit card to the MyPillow Guy next and complain about how much money just got charged to your account from the nearest strip club.
I mean, do you expect news to be free?
Either pay for it by selling your data or with money, or don’t use their website.
Why do I need to sell my data? Cant I just have ads?
And, though I don’t know about this one in particular, just because you pay not to have personalized ads, doesn’t mean you’re paying not to have your data tracked and sold by this company or to not have tracking cookies added to your browser by them that other sites can use to target ads to you.
It’s just that they won’t use the information they collect or buy or get from partners’ tracking cookies or advertising IDs already on your system to target the ads you see while on their site and logged in.
you get ads whether pay or not. keep your money
Where’s the option where they send me their home address so i can mail them a baggie of my chili lunch liquishit?
The red flag there in the screenshot shows you the name of the publication you should avoid using or visiting.
bypass paywalls clean?
Is this a question, a suggestion, or some kind of stroke? Do you need medical attention?
its an extension that can be added to FF/chrome. it “cleans” up the webpage so you don’t get the anti-ad-blocker/cookie crap on websites.
Thank you for the explanation!
