Internet's biggest annoyance: Cookie laws should target browsers, not websites

My least-favourite is websites with the "Pay or OK" model: "If you don't want more companies tracking you than were people in your high school, teachers and students both, you must pay us! [Pay] [Accept tracking]"

*Copy URL, close window, open private browsing session, paste*

As an aside, is anyone else getting LLM-writing-style vibes from the linked page, or is that just me?

> My least-favourite is websites with the "Pay or OK" model

Which doesn't respect the GDPR.

> As an aside, is anyone else getting LLM-writing-style vibes from the linked page, or is that just me?

The multiple 3-item lists with the item's first sentence in bold, the logic not perfectly following from one sentence to another, the numerous comparisons/metaphores, the em dashes, and the general, distinctive tone are certainly clues.

The thing is, these sites that give you an option to pay only let you pay to opt out of advertising (and some only partially!). It does nothing to stop tracking you.

There are several sites I would not hesitate to pay for, but the most that will net me is generally "content with invasive tracking". Sometimes with no ads and sometimes with "fewer ads". But in either case, still a non-starter because it's still capturing the same data about me and sharing it.