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I have never observed a non-techie do anything other than blindly click the call to action (i.e. agree to everything). The entire scheme seems sneakily designed

I have never observed a non-techie do anything other than blindly click the call to action (i.e. agree to everything). The entire scheme seems sneakily designed to actually encourage users to give more and explicit consent, avoiding the situation where consent was a grey area. It seems to have been spun to a great extent.

kalleboo 6y ago
> The entire scheme seems sneakily designed to actually encourage users to give more and explicit consent The law itself says that the default option should be to opt-out. Any site that doesn't have precisely equally prominent "agree to all" and "deny all" buttons violate the GDPR. The problem seems to be in the complete lack of enforcement.
devonbleak 6y ago
My biggest annoyance lately is having to go set my cookie preferences on every. single. site. If only there was some sort of browser standard that I could set in the preferences there and sites would just obey it....
- knorker 6y ago
  You mean like how we've been able to set cookie behavior in the browser since cookies were invented? Konqueror even had "confirm cookies" as default for a while back then.
  - ysavir 6y ago
    I think they're referencing the Do Not Track header.
    - knorker 6y ago
      Ok. So we already have do not track and cookie control. So what the hell is the EU doing?
- thwarted 6y ago
  Remember P3P? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P