If you click disagree, the site just doesn’t work at all. Instead, gadgethacks.com shows you this.
You know, normal sites make you accept the bare minimum that is required for the site to function, and give you an option to accept or reject all the tracking cancer and advertising plague.
In Spain most of news webs have been doing this more than a year. You can choose between accepting cookies or paying a monthly subscription to refuse cookies. They say that the EU law doesn't say that the option to refuse cookies has to be free, although Facebook was fined for doing exactly that recently. So, yeah...
In most of them what works is disabling JavaScript scripts execution.
Yes, but Facebook was fined because they are too big to avoid. Under the dma is I remember correctly, not the gdpr.
I have an extension that lets me block sites from search results. Half the spanish news sites are blocked, because I'm tired of seeing an interesting result, clicking on it, not being able to refuse cookies and having to go back.
It’s genuinely been infuriating. Typically, if a page asks me to accept cookies for their “1500 partners” i just decline it and block the site, but a lot of the Spanish news aggregates want 8€ a month before they let you view the page at all
Oh it’s JavaScript again. Seems like that’s the root cause and solution to most web related problems these days.