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by Retr0id 2 days ago
I think this would be a net benefit, but I can see an issue. A lot of news sites today do "accept tracking, or pay us, or you can't access the page". The orgs doing this are reputable-ish so I assume it's considered legal, on some level at least.

So now they'd have a new popup that says "reconfigure your browser to accept tracking, or pay us, or you can't access the page". Which isn't really an improvement.

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"accept tracking or pay" has already been ruled against, it just hasn't been universally enforced yet because enforcement takes time.