So many sites do:
“Here are cookie, advertising, tracking policies. Here is an OK button.”
After not clicking the ok button but attempting to continue:
“You must agree to our tracking policy”
That is explicitly not allowed/illegal under GDPR.
American companies including the Washington Post really have a damn hard time wrapping their head around that an agreement means you can decline to agree to it, and GDRP says refusing to be tracked is not grounds for a site to refuse service.
@szbalint Declining the agreement means declining to use the site, in this case.
And, in the US, any business has a right to refuse service, for any reason other than being a member of a protected class.
Declining cookies is not a protected class. EU laws do not trump the US constitution, and our laws. And, freedom of the press is a protected right.
