[robthebrew]

Ironically this website will not allow access unless you agree to data harvesting or pay up.

[dgellow]

What do you mean? I didn’t get a modal or banner

[em-bee]

you must have already agreed and forgotten about it.

clear all your cookies from heise and see what happens.

[kps]

Chrome's Reading mode avoids this.

[em-bee]

likewise on firefox

[JohnTHaller]

You can zap the element in Firefox with uBlock Origin

[retired]

Feels illegal under EU GDPR rules. I believe the accept and reject buttons should be equal size and style. Pay to eject, I’m not sure if that is illegal.

[em-bee]

it is illegal. see the other comments below.

what's most grating is that heise as a technical publication that is much more familiar with these issues should really know about this.

[dgellow]

The pay to eject is illegal under gdpr

https://noyb.eu/en/court-decides-pay-or-okay-derstandardat-i...

NOYB doing all the good work once more

[em-bee]

oh finally, we were just talking about this a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48444803

here is another one (from the above link)

https://noyb.eu/en/nordic-media-giant-schibsted-switches-pay...