Comment by nottorp
1 day ago
Hmm the guardian has gone "accept tracking or subscribe".
I wonder how that works out for them.
I also wonder if the time is ripe for some company to disrupt advertising by simply doing what google did on launch in 2000.
1 day ago
Hmm the guardian has gone "accept tracking or subscribe".
I wonder how that works out for them.
I also wonder if the time is ripe for some company to disrupt advertising by simply doing what google did on launch in 2000.
I didn’t know you were allowed to do that with cookies.
UK site. Not in the EU any more.
They're doing business in the EU.
Amusingly my voluntary subscription was just under the cut-off amount and I cancelled it as soon as this came in. I bought a subscription to The Economist instead.
1 reply →
Did they really already get rid of all the laws EU enforced upon them before they left? One would think it'd take a decade at least, but I guess things can move fast when the government really wants to.
The way regulation works in the EU is typically EU comes up with regulation for countries to implement, then they implement the laws via their national system, then everything is handled "locally". So just leaving the EU doesn't mean that all of those things just stop being active, you need to go through the process of removing the local laws before.
11 replies →
Why wouldn't they be allowed to do it?
You have the choice of not viewing the website.
That's non-compliant with GDPR. When shown to EU readers, they cannot block access based on accepting a privacy policy. Only essential cookies that really are needed for it to function are required.
2 replies →
There's been some GDPR-related rulings in EU courts which seem to be allowing this kind of thing at least by some interpretations.