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A lot of german news websites have cookie banners where the options are accept and subscribe to deny.

The argument is that denying doesn't prevent you from acessing the site.

I recall there's precedent for this being legal, but I can't seem to find it. Search engines have really gone down the drain lately.



This is the "Pay or okay" model that some sites in Austria and Germany have ( https://noyb.eu/en/pay-or-okay-beginning-end and other updates from NOYB talk about the issue).

I've also seen a Spanish site with this, but as far as I know it has only been accepted by Austrian and German authorities (and challenged recently by some courts).




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