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.
The best part of this is you would need to give them your personal information to pay them, and you’d need to accept the necessary cookies for them to know you’ve paid when you access the website. 🤣🤣🤣
you’d need to accept the necessary cookies for them to know you’ve paid when you access the website
Cookies that are required for and only used for operational purposes (like knowing if the user is logged in) don’t require consent.
you get ads whether pay or not. keep your money
private session by default and using start page as your search engine with Anonymous View to search the pages saves the cookies but they are worthless one you leave the site
Okay, but that’s still a lot of effort, and loads more effort than 90% of users would be willing to go through. All so these fucks can (try to) sell my data to 19000 different ‘vendors’ and their ‘legitimate interests’. I swear this needs to be legally regulated somehow before we end up having to pay these people to not monitor our webcams while we read their shitty tabloids.
BTW I do use searXNG and Startpage
If you’re on Firefox, you can also have certain sites automatically open in containers. “Sure, put cookies on my machine if you want. You can see me only browsing your website ever.”
Containers are great.
What do you think - cookie autodelete sound a little more private? “If you can’t fingerprint my browser, this might as well be my first visit to this website“
That’s the solution I’ve landed on for using Youtube, since Invidious and Piped always cack the bed for me. I’ve deleted my old Google account and started a new one with a fake email address, too.
Good strategy for dealing with them. Reminds me that on the Hacker News article about the Internet Archive hack, a couple of commenters reported on whether they found their email addresses in the leak. They called them their “unique-to-archive.org email addresses.”
The more we compartmentalize, the better off we are, I think.
Where’s the option where they send me their home address so i can mail them a baggie of my chili lunch liquishit?
It asks to play DRM content but plays videos anyway.
Their devs must be so sick of their business dept.
I’d be surprised if it was just the business department…
No you don’t.
The site is trash so you leave.
Solution: don’t read that shitrag. It was always a waste of paper, now it is a waste of bandwidth as well.
Not the f’n point
But a fair point nonetheless.
This is a legitimate option per EU guidelines btw. They just want you to accept cookies.
I’m pretty sure the EU rejected this. Facebook tried the exact same thing except the paid version has no ads at all (so either you get tracked, or you pay for an ad-free untracked experience) and the EU’s initial findings were that it wasn’t compliant because every user should have the freedom to opt out of tracking without having to pay. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/european-union-says-meta-breaking-digital-rules-with-paid-ad-free-option-for-facebook-and-instagram
Having said that, Brexit happened so this is likely OK in the UK now.
EU Withdrawal Act effectively retained all applicable EU law as UK law so anything would have to be specifically rescinded after that.
I don’t think anything’s changed wrt gdpr
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.
I don’t think I’ve ever had 63 tabs open on my browser. Well done.
Hey, my phone has 12Gb of RAM for a reason, and bookmarks are scawy…
More rams than a shepard. Respect.
Really? I regularly have well over 100, constant ♾️ Don’t get me wrong, I wish I didn’t.
Mad lad, hats off to you. If I have 6 or more open I start to feel uncomfortable.
I had 1600 open in Firefox on my computer (and maybe 200 on my phone) until I decided enough is enough and closed all of them. These days I close every tab at the end of the day.
I have so many open my browser doesn’t give me a count anymore and just shows me a surprised face.
How is this even legal?
Because Brits voted Brrrrexit?
This is a US website no?
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.
The red flag there in the screenshot shows you the name of the publication you should avoid using or visiting.
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.
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”?
“To change all cookie settings click_here” <-- this is the bit you want. It’s free to reject all the cookies yourself.
