this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2024
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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.
It’s genuinely been infuriating. Typically, if a page asks me to accept cookies for their “1500 partners” i just decline it and block the site, but a lot of the Spanish news aggregates want 8€ a month before they let you view the page at all