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> but they make me giving the personal details (which they will use to provided targeted ads, so sharing the data, conditional on giving access to the article)

• bryanrasmussen 6y ago
  Ok thanks for the good advice, now - what I see: The EU has launched legal action against the UK after Boris Johnson failed to respond to Brussels’ demand that he drop legislation that would overwrite the withdrawal agreement and break international law. Ursula von der Leyen, the European commission president, announced that .... The last line is greyed out followed by Register for free and continue reading It’s important to say this is not a step towards a paywall We need more readers to register with us to help sustain our independent, quality journalism. Without you taking this simple step, we miss out on revenues from personalised advertising – a critical source of funding for our future. Through doing so, you’ll help ensure that our reporting remains freely available to everyone, and if we recognise you when you come back, we can improve your news experience too. You can still control your own privacy settings. Thank you. -------------------------------------------- I admit I don't know exactly what "you can still control your own privacy settings" mean, I guess I could give them my details and find out. I also admit I don't know what you mean by click the X as I didn't see any obvious X in that text that should be clickable. There is a text I'll do it later, but as I won't do it later I didn't bother clicking on that either. So maybe I'm wrong, maybe you can just promise to do it later. But I guess I won't click that either. What I read certainly seems to imply that they want me to provide my personal details so they can give it to advertisers unless I pay for a subscription, which fair enough, I just note that this would be against the rules of the GDPR and I thought, huh ironic.
  • jaclaz 6y ago
    Try going to that page with javascript disabled, it works just fine here.
    • me_me_me 6y ago
      You also have option to just NOT READ IT. Just move on. You don't want adds, close the page. You don't want tracking close the page. Nobody forces you to be there. Instead of whining how you can not get stuff for free on the internet.
      • bryanrasmussen 6y ago
        I did not whine about I wanted it to be free, I noted that the Guardian is no longer GDPR compliant, which I believe is the case if they say they want your data to show you the article. I thought that was ironic, given that they have probably made this change based on Brexit - although I believe the transition period still applies here so not sure why they made the change.
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        • DanBC 6y ago
          Click the "not now" button. You don't need to register to read Guardian articles.
  • DanBC 6y ago
    You don't need to register. You need to read the modal and find the close button.