Good thing this was forbidden in the EU a few years back. As a user, you can't refuse "necessary cookies" but those from third parties you can (e.g. Google analytics). Imposing personalized ads if you don't pay is definitely forbidden in the EU I'd say

[–] shikogo@pawb.social 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Really? Because literally every German news website does this.

[–] MrMobius@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

They use every loophole legally available to them (you know what I mean, the button "I agree to sell my soul" being a hundred times bigger than the link to "I'd like to review your data collection and say which analytics service I adhere to"). But I haven't seen a website where they threaten compulsory personalized ads if you don't pay. It's generally "pay or you get cookies". But I tought those weren't third party cookies, just in-site ones.

[–] Korrok@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago

Spanish newspapers were doing it until very recently but this was released a couple months ago: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_3582

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

I thought it was illegal to have the opt out be smaller than the agree. Even stack overflow had to comply

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah. I thought this was literally what was banned but seems that it isn't 🤷