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From: JAB <noway@nochance.com>
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Subject: Paying to avoid cookeies?
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 10:22:17 +0100
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Well at least it's computer related, so I read something that the online 
version of The Daily Express newspaper have introduced a model that 
allows you either to read it for free but then you must accept being 
tracked with cookies or pay a subscription of £2 per-month to avoid 
them. There have been some comments about whether that's allowed under 
GDPR (the UK is still signed up although I'm surprised our last 
government didn't scrap it as party of EU meddling*) and why on earth 
would any pay to read that awful rag**?

Putting those aside my first thought was that's ridiculous but my second 
thought was why is it if you're getting a service for free then is it 
really that unreasonable to make you pay for it indirectly in the same 
way you can pay not to see ad's. So yeh why not although maybe it's a 
sign of things to come?

*The did try and introduce the British Standard Mark to replace CE 
marking as that was a nasty EU thing so we should have our own. After a 
long time they quietly shelved the idea after businesses kept pointing 
out that only introduces more red tape, and hence expense, for any 
company that sells anything abroad. But, but, but why wouldn't they 
accept it as we're British which is a mindset that quite a few of our 
last government actually held as they didn't seem to realise that we are 
no longer in the 1800's.

**Not sure how well that translate outside of the UK but it refers to a 
newspaper that you consider crap.