[epiapp]

My adblocker detects approximately 44 trackers on that page, including one from connect.facebook.net.

[craftyguy]

The article isn't "Independent to ask everyone to accept being tracked".

[gowld]

bottom of the page says:

> We use cookies to enhance your visit to our site and to bring you advertisements that might interest you. Read our Privacy and Cookie Policies to find out more.

[vm]

Ironically, the FB opt-in approach from the article is more privacy-forward than the publisher's automatically implied consent...

[polskibus]

This is not gdpr compliant, it's just the old cookie EU consent.

[bhhaskin]

No, but how can you trust a source if they are doing the exact same thing? They are a bit hypocritical.

[jacquesm]

You are confusing the writer of the article with the newspaper management. The writer can very well have a valid point while the newspaper management sees things differently. In fact, the writer may very well make this point because the newspaper management sees differently and yet, the article is published.

[confounded]

The entire text-media industry has been transformed by Facebook and Google into this state. Anything that used to be a newspaper is now a DFP content-farm with all the shitty third-party js they can manage to cram in there. Sites with paid subscriptions seem just as bad on the inside.

The only other business model I’ve seen work is “be owned by a billionaire”.

[bhhaskin]

I totally agree with you. I edited my original comment to hopefully make it a little bit clear.

[gaius]

As an aside I was on EdX earlier and even they are using connect.facebook.net too. Absolutely disgusting.

[trumped]

Which adblocker do you use? uBlock origin + uMatrix block 46 requests, altogether.