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It might not be okay to you, but isn't that exactly what GDPR is supposed to do?

• notimetorelax 8y ago
  Almost, they must offer the same experience to those who opt out of the targeted ads and other non essential profiling. Since profiling is not required for their service to work, they have to give access to the content even if I opt out.
• nightcracker 8y ago
  No. From: https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-43/ https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-43/ > Consent is presumed not to be freely given if ..., or if the performance of a contract, including the provision of a service, is dependent on the consent despite such consent not being necessary for such performance. It is not necessary to consent to data collection for a person to read Slate's article, therefore walling their article behind a consent button means the consent is not freely given. In other words - you can't lock a site behind a consent button. Either you provide the site regardless of data collection consent, or you don't provide it at all - period.
  • ceejayoz 8y ago
    > In other words - you can't lock a site behind a consent button. You can't lock a site under European jurisdiction behind a consent button. I don't see how any of this can apply to Slate, unless the EU wants to start reciprocally start enforcing, say, Saudi law on European websites.
    • opencl 8y ago
      But they clearly rolled out this change in response to the GDPR. If they thought the GDPR didn't apply to them they wouldn't have changed the old behavior of the site.
  • kodablah 8y ago
    > or you don't provide it at all This is the option they should take.