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lol. Facebook's "pay or consent" model does not comply with the Digital Markets Act(ec.europa.eu)

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Treczoks@lemmy.world
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Most media paywalls nowadays have “pay or consent to cookies and swallow advertizing”…

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David Gerard@awful.systemsOPM
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yes, and that’s illegal in the EU, hence the story?

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Treczoks@lemmy.world
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The point is it is not just facebook, it is about nearly every media page here in Europe.

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froztbyte@awful.systems
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but you didn’t actually say that, instead you had a quadro-ellipsis that could’ve been anything

and you’ve also just restated an obvious fact/observation with no point of your own? was there one?

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David Gerard@awful.systemsOPM
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yes, and that’s illegal in the EU, hence the story?

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skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
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i’ve seen this only on german newspapers tbh

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yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
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Unfortunately, the DMA only applies to digital gatekeepers, not individual new outlets

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David Gerard@awful.systemsOPM
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yes, but the GDPR violation remains

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