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Cookie walls that demand a website visitor agrees to their Internet browsing being tracked for ad-targeting as the ‘price’ of entry to the site are not compliant with European data protection law, the Dutch data protection agency clarified yesterday.
The DPA said it has received dozens of complaints from Internet users who had had their access to websites blocked after refusing to accept tracking cookies — so it has taken the step of publishing clear guidance on the issue.
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Cookie Walls Don’t Comply with GDPR, Says Dutch DPA
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(Score: 4, Informative) by DannyB on Friday March 08 2019, @09:22PM (2 children)
For a while some sites were using some kind of script that detected that you had blocked most of their 3rd party scripts and put up a big white page with something like: Something has prevented this page from loading.
But if I then disabled ALL javascript, the page showed up just fine.
Another trick: sometimes a site appears in a useable way by: View --> Page Style --> No Style; thus disabling all CSS.
It is truly sad that this is becoming an arms race.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 08 2019, @09:56PM (1 child)
I just block them with the ublock origin element blocker. It works fine.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by RS3 on Friday March 08 2019, @10:25PM
Yes, I concur- I do all of the above- most browsing with javascript off, often have to disable CSS, and use lots of blockers including ublock0 and umatrix when I'm in the mood (it's awesome though). Every now and then I come across a site that refuses to display anything but a banner saying "please enable javascript". We need much finer control over what the browser's javascript interpreter is allowed to do. Sometimes I use a proxy, or "in private" browsing mode, but it's pretty rare.