• @grueEnglish
    43•12 hours ago

    People calling the Sun worthless scum are missing the point, which is that this shit ought to be illegal.

    • @[email protected]English
      8•11 hours ago

      It’s a UK company.
      They are under no obligation to comply with GDPR.
      Yahoo JP actually shut out all foreign (or at least EU) traffic. They could do the same here if they’d want to

      • Rikudou_SageEnglish
        6•6 hours ago

        IIRC, this is allowed under GDPR. At least in my country it doesn’t fall under the broad GDPR and a court ordered the company that did it first here to preliminary stop doing it while it’s under investigation. But they’re doing it again, which leads me to believe the court didn’t find any legal basis to ban it.

        Just a side note, they are obligated to follow GDPR when dealing with EU customers. Even the US has to (or shut down the access for EU users as many US news sites did).

      • @[email protected]English
        6•9 hours ago

        As I understand it, the “UK GDPR” is basically the same thing as the EU’s GDPR. They need to maintain “adequacy” to continue to comply with the UK’s laws and guidelines, so they can’t simply block all non-UK traffic.

        • tabrisEnglish
          6•8 hours ago

          Yep, there’s been no repeal of the GDPR laws, so they are still officially on the books in the UK.

  • peto (he/him)English
    23•13 hours ago

    Scum practice by a scum company. Nothing of value is lost by not going there.

    I don’t even think this is top 5 worst things they’ve done.

  • @BruncvikEnglish
    10•12 hours ago

    In fairness, they’d have to pay me to view their article. Not read, mind you, just view. I don’t think I could force myself to read their articles even if paid.

  • kubica
    5•12 hours ago

    The sun taught me that not everything that is posted like news has to have any basis, and you should outright forget entirely what you read when it doesn’t come from a trusted source.