Well good luck getting The Guardian geoblocked in the EU. I won’t make the mistake of sharing my knowledge on this sub again.

Enjoy it while you can, the prompt is legit. It seems there are people on here trying to ensure the Guardian starts Geoblocking instead of just ignoring a Swiss Cheese based pop up with multiple workarounds.

Looks like everyone here just wants to make sure everyone knows they are ‘more right’ than those trying to help them.

Perhaps you should have led with that… as a UK based newspaper they probably only answer to the ICO. If you want to use a service in the UK you probably have to play by UK rules… pushing the issue may only result in the Guardian geoblocking the EU.

I assumed UK GDPR as the Guardian is a UK Newspaper.

And the result was this guidance detailing exactly how to implement it, direct from the Governing body in charge of enforcement of GDPR:

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-resources/online-tracking/consent-or-pay/

Edit: and this was a result of complaints and a public consultation, not any court case AFAIK.

I spent 20 years making compliance systems for OFCOM and later GDPR for the major UK banks. I promise I know more than 99.99% of the population on this subject.

The guidance on consent-or-pay is here and the link to report the Guardian when you find the specific infringement is here

Let us all know what you find.

It’s only really illegal if someone tests it in court… who wants to try and find a lawyer to challenge every newspaper in the EU, Meta, Facebook etc.

I just use “reader view” before the pop up appears. Not exactly a fan of the situation in either case, just pointing out the law is flawed and so is the implementation, but the most wrong thing is the legislation.

No need for ad hominem attacks here

The lawyers will say the “Reject” option successfully rejected the cookies on that first click, but if you still want to read the the article you have to pay.

I can see the coercion issue, where 99% of people are coerced into agreement, but that has yet to be defined as illegal.

In the meantime I’m going to keep hitting the “reader view” button before the cookie pop up appears.

The cookie legislation under GDPR is probably the most poorly thought out thing the EU has ever enacted, I hate cookies, but cookie pop ups have made everyone miserable.

I’m not spreading misinformation because it’s been challenged and every news site does the same thing, many do far worse.

It’s not illegal. What should be illegal is reading cookies for anything other than your own site.