If you click disagree, the site just doesn’t work at all. Instead, gadgethacks.com shows you this.
You know, normal sites make you accept the bare minimum that is required for the site to function, and give you an option to accept or reject all the tracking cancer and advertising plague.
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In Spain most of news webs have been doing this more than a year. You can choose between accepting cookies or paying a monthly subscription to refuse cookies. They say that the EU law doesn’t say that the option to refuse cookies has to be free, although Facebook was fined for doing exactly that recently. So, yeah…
In most of them what works is disabling JavaScript scripts execution.
Oh it’s JavaScript again. Seems like that’s the root cause and solution to most web related problems these days.
I have an extension that lets me block sites from search results. Half the spanish news sites are blocked, because I’m tired of seeing an interesting result, clicking on it, not being able to refuse cookies and having to go back.
Yes, but Facebook was fined because they are too big to avoid. Under the dma is I remember correctly, not the gdpr.
Browsers should start enabling deleting every data from any website other than explicitly allowed ones by default.
This violates European GDPR. Maybe report it to a data protection authority if Gadget Hacks operates in the European Union.
I couldn’t even call the About Us page without consenting to all cookies, so I don’t know where they are located.
Anyway, I do not bother. It’s a crap site for what I can see.
I loaded it up in Firefox Focus so I could accept cookies without it mattering (but it didn’t ask for some reason)
Anyway the About page has nothing. But the Terms, and Privacy pages redirect to a company called TechnologyAdvice that this seems be a subsidiary of, and that one is in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
I just go to another site. Any site that does this usually has the same information that can be found on several thousand other sites.
normal sites make you accept the bare minimum that is required for the site to function
I’ve seen plenty claim that the 500 trackers is basic functionality.
