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by Crono
1936 days ago
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I am working as a developer for a medium sized publisher in germany. Im pro GDPR and dont like the way the industry treats the users. But they just seem to continue on their course. Reaction on GDPR was very slow. Cookie Banners (before GDPR) where ignored. When GDPR was there we started to implement regular cookie banners - despite the warning from us developers that this would be illegal. The first real reaction on GDPR came at that moment Google forced them to. There was a deadline (somewhere in february 2021) where Google would limit ads if no consent-manager is implemented. When we finaly implemented it they set everything they can to fight against the user: The big blue floating button for the consent manager was hidden - instead i had to implement a link into the footer. Nobody will find it there. Then they disabled the "disable everything"-button. Now you can just allow everything or manually tick a hundred boxes. They totally know that its not legal. But nobody cares. Ad revenue is the most important thing and if they would follow the rules they would loose quiet a lot of money. As a developer its frustrating to see how user hostile the web has become ... Sure you can get another job, but its the same situation in every other place ... If you are just a user browsing the internet and beeing annoyed by all this stuff and mistreatment: Im sorry. Get an ad-blocker (uBlock Origin) and maybe additional uMatrix and learn how to protect yourself. The only way to "vote" is with the active denial of your data. They can see that statistics. They can see the rising number of people blocking all this tracking and advertisement stuff. |
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The irony is that the Cookie warning you get on all Googles sites are including all the dark patterns and seems to be there only to pretend they follow the law. All is op-out by default and you have to dig through many settings to turn off tracking