I don't mean the banner ads for cookies, I'm referring to sites restricting viewable content based on your selection. Which seems to be illegal in the EU.
Who are these "they" that has admitted it's a bad law?
It's one of the best recent pieces of privacy legeslation. It's not the EU's fault that websites are scumbags insisting on making life difficult for people.
Yes it is. They completely failed to specify what would constitute compliance. They were warned repeatedly about this when the law first came out.
It has good intentions behind it but the law itself doesn't work. They haven't reduced privacy violations at all because everyone just clicks yes because it's so frustrating, And it isn't against the law to implement these dark patterns so what's the point?
The Newscast is not the images. It's an annoying video they embed in all articles and then floats when you scroll. I actually have set an adblock rule to block that shit.
As for the images, for now hotlinking to Twitter images is possible, so: