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by ncallaway 1920 days ago
I personally inspected the page to delete the popup from the DOM without clicking "agree".

I found their privacy page here: https://xn--allestrungen-9ib.de/privacy.html.

Interestingly, that has a link to a cookie policy that links to speedtest.net's cookie policy (https://www.speedtest.net/de/about/cookie-policy). I think downdetector is offered by Ookla, so that probably is their cookie policy?

speedtest.net's cookie policy leaves something to be desired. In the english translation it has:

> If you prefer that we do not collect information that will help us determine which advertisements we are best serving you, click this icon.

But I don't see an icon there, or anything clickable. In case it's a mistranslation here's the original german:

> Wenn Sie es vorziehen, dass wir keine Informationen erfassen, mit deren Hilfe wir ermitteln können, welche Werbung wir Ihnen am besten anzeigen, klicken Sie auf dieses Symbol.

Based on that, I have no idea how you can manage your cookie preferences to express a desire not to be tracked.

It seems to be an absolutely flagrant violation of GDPR, and I would encourage a German citizen to bring a case to the German data protection authorities.