The Guardian has become the latest UK news publisher to begin requiring readers to pay for website access if they do not agree to being tracked by third-party cookies.

City AM, GB News and Newsquest’s network of local websites all also appear to have introduced “consent or pay” models in recent months.

The first wave of “consent or pay” sites appeared last summer when Mail Online, The Independent, the Daily Mirror, the Daily Express, The Sun and The Times all rolled out the scheme.