Re: Paying to avoid cookeies?

On 8/14/2024 2:22 AM, JAB wrote:

Well at least it's computer related, so I read something that the online version of The Daily Express newspaper have introduced a model that allows you either to read it for free but then you must accept being tracked with cookies or pay a subscription of £2 per-month to avoid them. There have been some comments about whether that's allowed under GDPR (the UK is still signed up although I'm surprised our last government didn't scrap it as party of EU meddling*) and why on earth would any pay to read that awful rag**?
 Putting those aside my first thought was that's ridiculous but my second thought was why is it if you're getting a service for free then is it really that unreasonable to make you pay for it indirectly in the same way you can pay not to see ad's. So yeh why not although maybe it's a sign of things to come?
 

This not new.  This kind of thinking has been around for about three seconds less than the internet has existed.  "If you are not paying for it, you are not the customer.  You are the product being sold to the customers."
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