There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.

Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.

jedibob5 ,

That has to be a GDPR violation, right?

topartinno ,

I think this is only in UK

jedibob5 ,

Ah, right, the joys of Brexit…

apfelwoiSchoppen ,
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I’ve seen this recently at German newspaper websites too.

weker01 ,

No, the EU does not force entities to provide Internet services for free.

You have the choice. Pay with your data or your money. I hate it too but what can you do?

stoy ,

This is a newspaper, not an ISP.

But from what I understand of the law, what you are saying is true

bjorney ,

For what?

Chozo ,

Privacy - it's your choice

You know, just choose to afford privacy.

Adalast ,

This is why I use a script blocker to block the scripts from marketing domains. From what I have been able to see the cookies aren’t written because the code that writes it is not allowed to execute. It also stops script injections and other malware payloads that require extra-domain linkages to scripts.

twinnie ,

Loads of them are doing this now, I’m pretty sure it’s illegal.

PhobosAnomaly ,

I used to love the print Indy. It was a fantastic paper, and the Sunday edition was genuinely a great read in itself with brilliant contributors.

Ever since the print edition ceased (some may point to the launch of i as the turning point but I’m not entirely sure that’s fair) the entire operation has been turned into an ad farm masquerading as a news site.

It’s a cross between a tabloid and the Million Dollar Homepage nowadays, and what a shame that is. At least it keeps browser “close tab” UI devs in business mind.

Moonrise2473 ,

I don’t see what’s the issue.

They want to get paid in some way and they offer the reader the option: pay with your privacy or pay with your money?

Or feel free to close the tab if both options are unacceptable. There are a lot of spamblogs written by chatgpt that allow to read the regurgitated content without accepting cookies, for example.

Maybe it’s infuriating because if you really want to read the content you’re forced to waste 1 second to right click => open in incognito window or waste 1 minute to sign up for a subscription, but I don’t think it’s asshole design, because they have to pay bills. You don’t want sponsored news pieces and fake reviews in that website either, no?

Now if it was like Facebook where the option is “pay with your privacy or pay with your privacy AND with your money”, that would be asshole design

HexesofVexes ,

Whatever you do, don’t post a link to that article to Archive.ph!

Seriously, it harms rich people by not letting them sell your data.

NateNate60 ,

A normal amount of adverts I think are fair though. Asking to get the content, not paying anything for it, and refusing to watch adverts is just a bit too cheeky, in my opinion.

LogicalDrivel ,
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Ive seen so many sites that just straight up wont work if you dont accept all cookies. You get the “tracking free” version of the site which is literally nothing. Or they say ok, just make an account and you can reject cookies. Fuck that

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