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A consent wall is consent and this ruling is why I hope European regulatory bodies fall into a hole. How do you think those "free" articles are paid for? They'
by megiddo 6y ago
A consent wall is consent and this ruling is why I hope European regulatory bodies fall into a hole.
How do you think those "free" articles are paid for? They're paid for with cookies.
This is the same wall that separates me from content on paywall sites - it's just that you don't get out your credit card. Instead, you whip out your cookie jar.
There is no universal "right" to view content. If the content is behind a cookie wall, you have two choices - either accept cookies or fuck off.
- anon98356 6y agoNo they are paid for with ads. How a website determines what ad to show is where it gets troublesome. There is no requirement to have 1000 trackers load cookies every time I go to your website in order to show me an ad.
- colanderman 6y agoThe best ads I've seen have been served from sites that do not target ads using cookies. I doubt that cookies are as necessary as you claim.
- annoyingnoob 6y agoThere is no universal "right" for websites to force cookies on me or for a website to force me to run 3rd party JS.