CNN privacy policy requires me to give them my personal contact information

[lindysalsagal]

I just followed a link to an article and a huge ACCEPT button blocked my view. When I followed it, there was a link to their privacy policy declaring I had to fork over my person contact information.

Guess I won't be reading CNN again any time soon.

[Tim S]

1. The sky is not falling. What link were you TRYING to use?

I visited CNN.com and was greeting by a Terms of Use agreement that had to be assented to before I could reach any content. Here are the links to their Terms of Use & Privacy Policy

https://www.cnn.com/terms0
https://www.wbdprivacy.com/policycenter/b2c/

You don’t have to provide any personal information to READ articles. You might have to if you are going to write comments there. If so, I applaud them for making people accountable for what they publish as comments. Think of it as Troll-Prevention

[lindysalsagal]

3. Not true. While incognito it demanded my identity just to read it

[Tim S]

4. Again, can you please supply the link you are talking about?

I want to try replicating your request to see if I get the same result. Thanks
(I used to do this sort of thing as a living)

[senseandsensibility]

2. Their webpage was terrible when I used to read it

Full of sanewashing headlines.