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What do you mean? I didn’t get a modal or banner
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you must have already agreed and forgotten about it.

clear all your cookies from heise and see what happens.

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Chrome's Reading mode avoids this.
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likewise on firefox
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You can zap the element in Firefox with uBlock Origin
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Feels illegal under EU GDPR rules. I believe the accept and reject buttons should be equal size and style. Pay to eject, I’m not sure if that is illegal.
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it is illegal. see the other comments below.

what's most grating is that heise as a technical publication that is much more familiar with these issues should really know about this.

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The pay to eject is illegal under gdpr

https://noyb.eu/en/court-decides-pay-or-okay-derstandardat-i...

NOYB doing all the good work once more

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oh finally, we were just talking about this a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48444803

here is another one (from the above link)

https://noyb.eu/en/nordic-media-giant-schibsted-switches-pay...

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