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https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/08/cookie-walls-dont-comply-with-gdpr-says-dutch-dpa/
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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 08 2019, @10:28PM
You hit the nail on the head.
I don't allow scripts of any kind much less JS. I get that "Let us set our cookie!" drivel all the time. I simply scroll past it & read the content anyway.
If the site refuses to serve up the content then I simply get a search engine cache of the plain text of the page & read it that way.
You have *no* valid reason to put a cookie on my machine unless I've got an account with you. If the only reason is to track & market to me then you can KMMFA. Don't like it? Tough. Put up a paywall to keep me out. I'll just get my news elsewhere.
"Butbutbutbut! How will they survive if they can't set a cookie? ZOMG! Won't someone think of their starving children?"
The same way they survived when they sold newspapers laid open flat on a news stand so passers by could read the front page for free. It enticed them to buy a copy to get more of the story, otherwise that potential customer went somewhere else to get their news.
You can make the front page worth of stuff free for non-cookie-allowing people, but that just gives us the bits we needed anyway. 90% of the story will be in the first paragraph with the "meat & potatoes" getting spread over a zillion different pages inside. In the digital age the "teaser paragraph" might entice us to allow the cookie to read more, but then it ALSO might prove to us that your publication is nothing but click bait shit that needs to be flushed.
I just go to the news feed service of my search engine & read plain text caches of all the news that interests me.
"But but but, but you could subscribe to OUR RSS feeds & get the stories delivered that way!"
Which would mean letting you set a cookie. What part of "anonymous" did you not understand?
*Wicked, Evil grin*