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Orginal article, submission link is machine-translated by the publisher: https://www.heise.de/news/ARM-will-Verkauf-aller-neuen-PCs-m....

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Warning: this publisher requires either enabling tracking cookies, or paid subscription. There's no privacy-preserving way to read the article.

They helpfully send the whole article before asking you to enable tracking cookies. You can e.g. use reader mode to read the article. This mostly seems like an oversight on their part though.

Archive link: https://archive.is/kGByU.

Or https://archive.is/adAmO for English.

Reader mode works for me on firefox.

The privacy-preserving way to browse the web is to disable third-party cookies in your browser.

What do you mean no privacy-preserving way? The subscription is the one

"pay or okay" has been ruled illegal _on that specific site_ by the German Data Protection Agency: https://noyb.eu/en/pay-or-okay-tech-news-site-heisede-illega...

So why aren't they complying?

As mentioned in the article the site maliciously complied by (barely) changing the behaviour, which meant that the complaint has been renewed:

> Felix Mikolasch, Data Protection Lawyer at noyb: “It seems that the LfD's decision has already been overtaken by the latest version of the "Pay or Okay" banner. We will of course go back to the LfD and continue to fight this practice.”

It is not. By subscribing you uniquely identify yourself, with your real-world identity. Is is not necessary to use tracking cookies, when you log-in with your credentials.

> Warning: this publisher requires either enabling tracking cookies, or paid subscription.

Yes they're asses...

> There's no privacy-preserving way to read the article.

.. but, viewing with incognito mode should destroy the cookies on exit, and if you're worried about IP tracking, VPN?

Yep, you can only select "Zustimmen (agree)" for "Datenverarbeitungen von Werbeanbietern einschl. personalisierter Werbung mit Profilbildung (data processing by advertising providers including personalized advertising with profiling)."

I was disappointed to find this out after navigating through text written in an unfamiliar language and a complicated cookie dialog comparable to this [1]. German cookie dialog on an English article, is that even legal?

[1]: https://cookieconsentspeed.run

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