"Pay or Okay" - the beginning of the end?

Cookie Banners "Pay or Okay" - the beginning of the end? "PUR Abo" on derStandard.at illegal according to Austrian DPA After the GDPR came into force, the Austrian daily newspaper "Der Standard" launched an attempt to circumvent the law: readers had to choose between their data being processed or buying a subscription. Any initial complaints were ignored by the Austrian Data Protection Authority (DPA), leading to a rapid spread of cookie paywalls in Germany and then throughout the EU. Today, the Austrian DPA has partially changed its mind. DPA decision on "Der Standard" (German) noyb complaints on "Pay or Okay" Summary of the decision on GDPRhub Resolution of the German data protection conference on "Pay or Okay" No "blanket consent". While the DPA has only reviewed the "Pay or Okay" model to a limited extent and confirmed its general permissibility, the authority specifies that users must have the possibility to say "yes" or "no" to any specific data processing, as foreseen by the GDP