If you hit Reject and Pay on the cookie notice, it’s a £7 monthly recurring charge that does not subscribe you to The Times, and does not turn off ads, nor allo

If you hit Reject and Pay on the cookie notice, it’s a £7 monthly recurring charge that does not subscribe you to The Times, and does not turn off ads, nor allows you to browse without tracking. It simply turns off and personalisation and promises The Times (but no mention of their partners) won’t use your personal information for ads. And apparently this stands only for the website, not the apps, for which cookies are “managed separately”. £84 a year for one website to still advertise to you and still track you in their apps, and not even give you paid content. Even if you choose to accept all cookies and tracking, the next modal asks to pay for digital access to read the article. Meaning — you might need two recurring subscriptions to read the article, it seems. This level of grift — I couldn’t have even imagined. What a trash-tier business practice.