Was trying to read a news story and… What fresh shitfuckery is this? Why do I now have to pay money to a company just for the privilege of not being spied upon and not getting your cookies that I don’t want or need? How is this even legal?

RE: “Why are you even reading that shitrag?” – I clicked on a link someone posted in another sublemmit, didn’t realise it was the Sun till after. I do not read the Sun on the regular, chill. My point stands regardless that this is extremely shitty and should probably not be allowed.

    • nogooduser@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      We still have the UK implementation of GDPR. That didn’t go away when we left the EU.

      We won’t have any changes to it that might have happened since brexit but we didn’t remove the law either.

      • kindenough@kbin.earth
        1·
        3 months ago

        Yeah I learned of this before, you are 100% correct. The EU GDPR is in place for any UK company doing business in the EU and the UK GDPR visa versa, but they differ on topics as immigration, national security and such as you might know anyhow. The rest is very similar.