noyb's Pay or Okay report: how companies make you pay for privacy

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by EFF Deeplinks / noyb / Access Now at 24 Jul 2025, 05:00 UTC

Forced Consent & Consent Bypass So-called ‘Pay or Okay’ systems are on the rise in Europe. First introduced by newspapers in Austria and Germany, Meta adopted the approach for Instagram and Facebook in 2023. By now, many websites across Europe are using similar systems. Instead of giving users a…