Shame on Heise for this GDPR-noncompliant trash in their cookie pop-up:

> We offer you the option of rejecting individual data processing. If you have made a selection for all processing purposes, you can save it. Please note that consent to personalised advertising is always required for use without a Pur subscription.

Naah, no, you don't get to gate rejecting consent behind a subscription. Not even if that's your economic reality. The GDPR entitles people in Europe to opt out of surveillance capitalism, and if you can't make money in that environment, you deserve to go bankrupt.

Gimme dat shit for free.

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throwawayqqq11 3 hours ago | parent [-]

You do you think pay-or-ok is not compliant? Ive not heard of a ruling against it.

	▲	tremon 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-43/ > Consent is presumed not to be freely given [..] if the performance of a contract, including the provision of a service, is dependent on the consent despite such consent not being necessary for such performance. https://noyb.eu/en/pay-or-okay-explained-why-more-and-more-w... > the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) is working on a binding opinion on 'Pay or Consent', which will determine whether Europeans continue to have a realistic option to protect their privacy online. If the approach is legitimised for Meta, companies across all industries could follow suit - which would mark the end of genuine consent to the use of European's data.