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Reddit is removing ability to opt out of ad personalization based on your activity on the platform (techcrunch.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am actually not even sure that is true. Some News sites like golem.de and heise.de are doing this for years. It is basically agree to this or leave the site.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This may or may not be illegal, depending on what the “this” is you’re agreeing to. As a simple example, if it is “you agree to functional cookies by continuing to use the site”, that’s fine. If it is “you agree to us scraping your computer and selling everything we find to China”, that is most definitely not legal, nor is refusing service if you don’t agree.