My biggest concern is they will hold your data hostage if you don’t pay or try to leave.
Also, how can we be assured the privacy practices of their subscription/payment platform are at least better than the (likely blockable) trackers?
Forming a financial relationship with a website is, theoretically, infinitely more traceable to your personal identity than all the cookies in the world.
Can’t do that in the EU (thank you GDPR).
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Join us in the EU 🙂
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They can, but then that can end up in EU court. If it happened to you, tell the consumer association of your country or your Data Protection Officer. People and companies can do what ever they like, they just have to live with the consequences.
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Sadly, they are doing it in spain, the judges recently stated that they can do it, and few days later almost all of the spanish newspappers had it.
Privacy is not paid for. Privacy is taken. it is something that only you can achieve for yourself. paying ransom money will do little
Even if you pay them, your privacy is gone. Any part of you placed in someone else’s hands makes privacy a joke
I misread pay as gay and I thought this thread was going to get spicy
