This website forces you to pay for a subscription to reject -any- of it’s tracking. No, you can’t just go in and reject them individually. Any selection other than “accept all” gets you this page.

Here’s the start of the dialog

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  • iamthetot@piefed.caEnglish
    4·
    4 hours ago

    Aren’t they kind of just being honest about what all websites do anyway? Hell, most places you pay for are still tracking you and selling your data, so frankly this may be an upgrade over other services.

  • Bazoogle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    63·
    7 hours ago

    Not that this is a legit service, but aren’t the two main options:

    • Pay with money
    • Pay with ads/tracking

    Services cost money. It’s never free. Someone is always paying

    • i_need_your_bones@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      3·
      6 hours ago

      I’m ok with advertisements personally. My issue is soley with the tracking. You’re correct that this is how they pay for non paying customers but I’m focused on the morality of that monetization. Staticly inserted advertisments that don’t track you are fine. Like the old newspapers which had a simple advertisement placed there that didn’t watch you back. That’s fine.

      I’d be much happier if they paywalled the article, or parts of it.

      If the free version isn’t viable without immoral monetization it’s unviable. Don’t do it, or find another way to monitize.

    • percent@infosec.pubEnglish
      32·
      6 hours ago

      Honestly, I find it somewhat refreshing that a company offers this choice. It seems like a more honest, transparent way of doing business.

      It’s terrible from a marketing perspective though (this post is a good example of why)

  • Björn@swg-empire.deEnglish
    62·
    15 hours ago

    These things are regularly ruled to be illegal in Germany and still many big news sites use them.