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Hitton on May 6, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, ...

This will change nothing, because it's so easy to avoid it. The website won't give visitors choice to agree or gtfo, they will instead give choice to agree or pay instead (i.e. same result for 99.9 % of visitors), which is sufficient to fulfil lawful obligations.

forgotmylogin2 on May 6, 2020 [–]

One can only hope that is the case. Otherwise, this ruling is basically a decree that journalists must give away their work for free.

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