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by exceptione 36 days ago 

  > Germany is pretty hopelessly behind on everything except GDPR enforcement.
Are you sure? I see major outlets in Germany blatantly violating the GDPR by forcing visitors to pay with their privacy or pay with their money. That is not allowed. It is perfectly fine to have a paywall, but you can never have people pay with their privacy.
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jillesvangurp 36 days ago
Are you sure they are in violation? Because it only takes one customer to trigger expensive lawsuits. And there are a lot of very eager and trigger happy lawyers in Germany specializing in that sort of thing. A lot of people make bad assumptions about what is and isn't legal/allowed and a lot of companies have gotten good at finding the grey area of stuff that probably won't get them into trouble.
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exceptione 36 days ago
From a quick check some wrong ones seem to have disappeared, but bild.de is massively confusing right now. It offers

  > Um BILD.de kostenfrei nutzen zu können, ist für einige Verarbeitungszwecke Ihre Einwilligung erforderlich. Für andere Verarbeitungszwecke können Sie hier eine Auswahl treffen. Wenn Sie zu allen Verarbeitungszwecken eine Auswahl getroffen haben, können Sie diese speichern. Sie können Ihre Auswahl jederzeit über den Link „Privacy-Manager“ ändern.
That seems in violation of: privacy is not a payment.

EDIT: bild.de offers a fake consent choice screen. They fail to provide a "decline all" next to their "accept all" option, but even if you disable every tracking choice and choose to persist your choices, it does nothing and keeps the blocking cookie wall.

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