> I don't feel obliged to accept their shitty privacy policy, and in return they are not obliged to serve me their often equally shitty content. Yes and no. Ye

> I don't feel obliged to accept their shitty privacy policy, and in return they are not obliged to serve me their often equally shitty content. Yes and no. Yes, in the sense that you can argue that. No, in the sense that the GDPR just says "no, you cannot ask people to pay with personal information". So either they must show me the article even if I opt-out of giving my information. Or they must make reading their article conditional upon something else (say, paying them). They CANNOT make it conditional upon my consent to use my personal data, because that's just coercing me into clicking "yes", which is exactly what GDPR is supposed to curb.