Hopefully this decision will spread to other EU countries (after Austria and Germany). There is another aspect that should be noted (IMHO), while I find perfec

Hopefully this decision will spread to other EU countries (after Austria and Germany). There is another aspect that should be noted (IMHO), while I find perfectly fine that a news (or any other site) is (pay) members only, giving the alternative between paying a subscription and giving your data is clear evidence that the exchange is a barter, and as such it means that a certain amount of money is attributed to these data (and being a barter, it should be subject to taxation under most tax codes). There were some news in February about the EPPO (European Public Prosecutor Office) pushing for this, namely looking at Meta: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34897913 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34897913