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by jtbayly
1596 days ago
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What an utterly useless law. We have a convenient way for people to request universally that sites not track them. So let’s make a law that makes them have to ask “the right way” every. Single. Stinking. Site. On. The. Internet. Every. Single. Time. They. Visit. Every. Single. Site. One might be forgiven for assuming that the law was actually intending to accomplish the reverse of the stated goal. It gives site owners tons of explicit opt-ins that nobody can complain about, even though they were coerced. |
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DNT is utterly ignored to the point it’s officially deprecated in various browsers and the W3C working group for it disbanded:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track
> It gives site owners tons of explicit opt-ins that nobody can complain about, even though they were coerced.
Coerced assent is expressly forbidden by GDPR, so we absolutely can and are complaining about this.