• Yes I know, and it’s legal in many other places…what’s your point? I am not allowed to state that this shitty behavior is illegal (albeit mostly unenforced) somewhere that is closely related to the location of this particular website?

        • Point was the site is showing a price in sterling suggesting it is being viewed in the UK, which is now not an EU member thus has it’s own laws regarding this stuff.

    • AFAIK it’s actually not illegal, it is allowed to have a paid tracking free alternative instead of a free tracking free alternative.

      • It is not legal to force tracking or payment. Tracking has to be voluntary and privacy may never be conditional of payment.

  • 3 months

    Since i use ublock with a blocklist to block popups I would never have seen this.

    Honestly I bet they have in the bottom of there privacy policy that they will track you even after you pay to remove tracking.

    • Archive and read the site, install an ad blocker, block the elements with ublock, or move on and forget about the article. That’s my process.

    • 3 months

      their ads won’t appear I think is the main takeaway from it.

      If the person who makes the article has any type of advertising via contract or referral links it doesn’t apply.

    • Is the Daily Star, which almost unbelievably, is probably worse than The Sun. (More misogynistic at least, editorially I couldn’t comment)