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    In Germany its legal to demand payment for reject all, that’s what you’re seeing at heise 🤡

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      It’s illegal in EU. There is an ongoing complaint against Heise submitted to Data protection authority in North Rhine-Westphalia. Just because the responsible authority has been dragging out the decision for four years, doesn’t make it legal.

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        Thought heise already won in lower courts. Tbh I dont care too much, I trust ublock way more than any reject button anyways

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        Do you think it’s immoral for press to charge for their work?

        No, it’s immoral for them to sell my data. They can advertise without the tracking bullshit too.

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        You had an argument there… and then you mentioned state news. Ones that are just as eager to produce clickbait bullshit and constantly frame everything to either align with one political direction/party -totally coincidently of course- is well-connected with leading positions of those boradcaster or to make even the most rediculous crazy topics a valid opinion in a gigantic shit pile of false balancing. And so your argument sadly fell apart.

        Yes, state news as they are right now, are indeed a waste of our tax euros and they don’t even come close to doing the job they are supposed to do. They however manage to waste incredible amounts of money on entertainment that is not their job at all, while also only addressing a very narrow spectrum of viewers. That’s impressive, but not actually good either…

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          They however manage to waste incredible amounts of money on entertainment that is not their job at all

          Except that is their job, too.