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by m4l3x 1550 days ago
"According to France’s privacy watchdog CNIL, Youtube users only had to click once to accept cookies, whereas refusing cookies took multiple clicks.

CNIL’s complaint stated that Google purposefully made the consent mechanisms more complex to push consumers to accept cookies––a clear violation of the GDPR’s requirement that companies provide equally simple ways to opt into or out of data collection."

So these dark patterns are officially violating GDPR. However there are still tons of websites implementing this.

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They were from the start and this was abundantly clear, but given the complete lack of enforcement, people just did whatever the big websites were doing. If these don't get caught, why would they go for random cooking blogs?
What if they could go for the companies building these standardized GDPR cookie consent dialogs instead...
Which, sometimes, also illegal. Trustarc for example.