Pretty sure this is illegal but I guess whatever fine they get is just the cost of business
The normal paid one (~£15 a month or £150 a year) is still fully ad-free, and can be (officially) shared with “a few friends and family”. This looks like a new “pay less but have adverts” subscription option, which is obviously a bit shitty and questionable.
It’s a bit pricey, but it’s one of the few British news sources without a right wing bias, and we need it to still exist.
It doesn’t excuse the privacy paywall though.
They’re still rife with TERFs, they sacked Carole Cadwalladr, and now they’re pivoting to AI, so I wouldn’t give them a penny.
Presses back button
There’s no ads when you use uBlock Origin.
This pop-up finally caused me to learn how the element zapper feature works
There’s a filter list for cookie popups.
This finally made me learn about optional filter lists
Its a big moment for most people.
No tracking cookies, either lol