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by omnimus 941 days ago
The fact other companies do the same thing doesnt mean what Facebook is doing is OK. Probably nobody (yet) filed GDPR complaint about them.

Actually going after the big players is way how to set precedent. If Facebook will be allowed to do this then most likely everybody can.

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At least in Germany, our DPAs okayed the news site behavior.
Still find it out as I thought you had to offer the same functionality/content whether they accept extra cookies or not
out = odd?

Here’s what the DPA conference had to say

https://datenschutzkonferenz-online.de/media/pm/DSK_Beschlus...

Deepl:

> Whether the payment option - e.g. a monthly subscription - is to be regarded as an equivalent alternative to consent to tracking depends in particular on whether users are offered equivalent access to the same service in return for a standard market fee. Equivalent access generally exists if the offers include the same service, at least in principle