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This is off topic, but is it legal for websites to ask me to either accept tracking or pay? I thought the GDPR made tracking truly optional.
by stavros 6mo ago
This is off topic, but is it legal for websites to ask me to either accept tracking or pay? I thought the GDPR made tracking truly optional.
- victorbjorklund 6mo agoIt is a gray zone. Some national regulatory agencies has said ”pay or consent” is compatible with GDPR and some have said it is not. It hasn’t yet been tested by the EU court.
- gib444 6mo agoYou can't usually force a business to do business with you (i.e. serve you content, for free) even in the EU IANAL but the legal argument seems pretty simple to me based on that concept, so I wonder if that's why it hasn't gone to court yet? Do we as users even want it to? Imagine if the organisations won...
- nottorp 6mo agoThe Guardian is in the UK, but I've seen dialogs like that even on some german sites, so i guess it's legal.
- petesergeant 6mo ago> is it legal for websites to ask me to either accept tracking or pay It's complicated and actively being ruled on in different ways by different countries.