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Quite a lot of "cookie banners" are really banners to allow third parties to track you. Under GDPR, this requires a clear, unambiguous consent, freely given. H
by gnud 6y ago
Quite a lot of "cookie banners" are really banners to allow third parties to track you.
Under GDPR, this requires a clear, unambiguous consent, freely given.
How can you understand what you consent to if you blanket-accept everything? And thus the consent is invalid. And they need a new banner.
- cedilla 6y agoSome News sites literally ask for consent to over a thousand purposes in dozens of categories. Ist's really wild top assume that that's consent, informered or otherwise.
- tripzilch 6y agoOh but that behaviour is actually pretty clearly not compliant with the EU cookie law. It just hasn't been enforced (which isn't great). They're not allowed to make it harder to withdraw consent than to give it. I've also found, on the few times I humoured their "consent" system, found that each of these "tracking providers" (?) needed to make a request to a different domain to withdraw consent, and some of them simply wouldn't load.