Ironically this website will not allow access unless you agree to data harvesting or pay up.

What do you mean? I didn’t get a modal or banner

	▲	em-bee 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		you must have already agreed and forgotten about it. clear all your cookies from heise and see what happens.

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kps 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Chrome's Reading mode avoids this.

	▲	em-bee 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		likewise on firefox

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JohnTHaller 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You can zap the element in Firefox with uBlock Origin

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retired 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Feels illegal under EU GDPR rules. I believe the accept and reject buttons should be equal size and style. Pay to eject, I’m not sure if that is illegal.

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em-bee 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

it is illegal. see the other comments below.

what's most grating is that heise as a technical publication that is much more familiar with these issues should really know about this.

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dgellow 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The pay to eject is illegal under gdpr

https://noyb.eu/en/court-decides-pay-or-okay-derstandardat-i...

NOYB doing all the good work once more

	▲	em-bee 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		oh finally, we were just talking about this a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48444803 here is another one (from the above link) https://noyb.eu/en/nordic-media-giant-schibsted-switches-pay...