This site seems to demand cookie consent for access (is that legal in EU anyway?) so can somepne provode tl;dr?

victorbjorklund 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It is a grey zone. Some of the data protection authorities in EU have said that it's okay to do pay or consent while others have said it's not okay and it hasn't been tested by the EU court yet.

	▲	Grumbledour 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think the law is actually pretty clear on that front, that it is not ok, but in the meantime, all the big publishers do it and make so much money, they actually don't care much about fines, especially given the chance they might get levied against a competitor first, at which point they can quickly change that behaviour. As so often, the biggest GDPR problem is missing enforcement.

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solarkraft 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It’s called “pay or okay” and condemned by noyb: https://noyb.eu/en/noybs-pay-or-okay-report-how-companies-ma...

But actual enforcement of GDPR has always been shoddy. First the “legitimate use” loophole, now this.

It’s a bit ironic that heise does this, since they probably have one of the most sensitive readerships to this.

	▲	fmajid 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The EU Data Protection Board, which unlike noyb is an official part of the EU, albeit not from the judicial branch, has also come out against pay-or-consent.