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There is law and there is the spirit of the law. The ECJ can be pretty fast when they feel someone is taking the piss.
by toyg 4y ago
There is law and there is the spirit of the law. The ECJ can be pretty fast when they feel someone is taking the piss.
- amelius 4y agoThe cookie popups can be very annoying and confusing and they didn't do anything about that.
- jeroenhd 4y agoThey have actually fined several large tracking providers for their shady cookie popups because opting out was harder than opting in. European DPAs aren't getting enough funding to take on this problem, but they haven't been sitting still either.
- kuschku 4y agoThey're slowly working through the backlog. Even Google gave in and put a single, working "deny all tracking" button front and center.
- phatfish 4y agoRecently I've noticed more sites providing a visible "Deny All" button, rather than the dark pattern of going through and unchecking 5, 10, 50 tracking cookies individually, or having to dig out a button hidden somewhere. I assume this was how it was intended to function, but the kind people that run internet websites intentionally made it more difficult.
- solarkraft 4y agoIndeed, the bigger players were, I think, specifically contacted. Lots of smaller players still do it, though, so maybe this is not the most effective enforcement style.