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.

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.