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by curryst 1964 days ago
I think that's a long lost battle and they know it. They're going for attrition. People don't want to be tracked, and clicking all the don't track buttons 78 times a day is annoying, so eventually they say fuck it and just start clicking Accept All.

There need to be fines for this. They're clearly violating the spirit of the law, if not the exact letter (and I think much of Europe has legal systems that follow the spirit more than the letter, don't they?)
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corty 1964 days ago
In practically all cases it is against the exact letter of the law: "It shall be as easy to withdraw as to give consent."

Article 7 (3) 4. https://gdpr-info.eu/art-7-gdpr/

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TeMPOraL 1964 days ago
They're often violating the letter too.

I'm in favor of a lot more fines, and substantial fines. Few companies need to be made example of. The current situation does further damage to how EU citizens perceive GDPR and EU itself - companies do their best to make the consent control experience as bad and tiresome as possible, and then they tell people to blame GDPR for how web browsing just got more annoying.

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