Continue with ad tracking or pay 2€/month

#1

Post by chuch » Fri, May 07, 2021, 8:12 AM UTC

This website requiries either : accept all cookies or pay 2€ per month without ad tracking https://www.allocine.fr/

I'm live in eu so the GDPR applies, I gess this is legal because it's a big website. So far I have found one another site using the same technique.

Do you use other website with the same behavior? This completely blew my mind; If we disable cookies on this website it's working well, but everyone don't know that we can do this. Theses websites makes people think cookies are only controlled "server side"

Re: Continue with ad tracking or pay 2€/month

#2

Post by itbeforesunset » Fri, May 07, 2021, 10:11 AM UTC

I don't think the size of a website plays a role in whether something is legal. I could see a few issues here, one of them below (I am not a lawyer):

According to GDPR "It shall be as easy to withdraw as to give consent.": You could argue that accepting the cookies is easier (press of a button) than initiating a payment when one chooses to object at a later point.

Re: Continue with ad tracking or pay 2€/month

#3

Post by chuch » Fri, May 07, 2021, 2:24 PM UTC

itbeforesunset wrote: post #2

I don't think the size of a website plays a role in whether something is legal. I could see a few issues here, one of them below (I am not a lawyer): According to GDPR "It shall be as easy to withdraw as to give consent.": You could argue that accepting the cookies is easier (press of a button) than initiating a payment when one chooses to object at a later point.

I agree, this is a bad way to know if this is legal.

I can add another issue : "Consent must be freely given, i.e. not allowed to be forced." This kind of behavior is clearly intended to force the user to accept cookies.