You can sue them over this. I’m surprised no IT wizard has done this yet.
In France, CNIL (equivalent to Autoritée de Protection des Données / Gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit) confirmed such offer is legal (eg cookies or 2€/month).
I haven’t heard about Belgium CVP taking party for those. On the other hand I never had a Belgium site do this so far. If you provide the site and its Belgian, we could ask their view?
It’s not, GDPR requires the site offer full functionality without tracking personal data for monetary gain.
The GDPR started out as something beautiful you know, it’s too bad it got completely mutilated by the lobbying of big corporations.
There’s a pano docu about it I think
Open the url in a private window and accept cookies. Since its private windows it wont really let cookies through
The kicker being that being logged in is verified by… wait for it… a session ID cookie!
Usually i just think “oh another website I’ll never visit again, I guess” and look for my stuff elsewhere.
It isn’t, and they’re aware. But parent company DPG knows enforcement of GDPR is a joke.
It absolutely isn’t.
Honestly GDPR made the web worse according to me. I mean, the intention is good, but the implementation and enforcement is shit. On most sites if you want to reject tracking you need to click multiple times, read a wall of text, switch toggles that use double negatives, etc. In the end you just lose time at every new site you visit, and get tracked the same because not giving consent is a UI nightmare (obviously on purpose).
It isn’t, but honestly, just don’t use the website if it’s such a big deal to you.
I took a subscription cause Pricewatch is worth its weight in gold.
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It’s not, doesn’t stop them from trying though.
They activate their cookies when viewing the policy, without accepting them: https://tweakers.net/info/algemene-voorwaarden/cookies/
You can sue them over this. I’m surprised no IT wizard has done this yet.
In France, CNIL (equivalent to Autoritée de Protection des Données / Gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit) confirmed such offer is legal (eg cookies or 2€/month).
I haven’t heard about Belgium CVP taking party for those. On the other hand I never had a Belgium site do this so far. If you provide the site and its Belgian, we could ask their view?
They already said they would eliminate tracking cookies altogether: https://tweakers.net/plan/3522/tweakers-stopt-met-thirdpartytracking-en-cookiemuur.html?mode=nested&niv=2&order=desc&orderBy=rating&page=1#reacties
It’s not, GDPR requires the site offer full functionality without tracking personal data for monetary gain.
The GDPR started out as something beautiful you know, it’s too bad it got completely mutilated by the lobbying of big corporations.
There’s a pano docu about it I think
Open the url in a private window and accept cookies. Since its private windows it wont really let cookies through
The kicker being that being logged in is verified by… wait for it… a session ID cookie!
Usually i just think “oh another website I’ll never visit again, I guess” and look for my stuff elsewhere.
It isn’t, and they’re aware. But parent company DPG knows enforcement of GDPR is a joke.
It absolutely isn’t.
Honestly GDPR made the web worse according to me. I mean, the intention is good, but the implementation and enforcement is shit. On most sites if you want to reject tracking you need to click multiple times, read a wall of text, switch toggles that use double negatives, etc. In the end you just lose time at every new site you visit, and get tracked the same because not giving consent is a UI nightmare (obviously on purpose).
It isn’t, but honestly, just don’t use the website if it’s such a big deal to you.
I took a subscription cause Pricewatch is worth its weight in gold.