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by hiccuphippo 1202 days ago
Recently I've seen many sites put a "reject all" button in the same size and color as the "accept all" button, Stack Overflow for example. I thought some legislation must have changed somewhere.
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Legislation hadn't changed, but some big company (Google?) realized EU was serious and they would get fined big time if they continued to pretend to not understand, and then a few more took the hint afterwards.
I thought the legislation always said something like "rejecting must take the same number of clicks as accepting" and the ones without a "reject all" just weren't in compliance.
And yet somehow they’ll remember my choice to accept while reasking every visit if I reject.

The legislation needs to be opt out by default with a non obtrusive request to opt in. These aren’t players in good faith so why indulge them in legislation.

> And yet somehow they’ll remember my choice to accept while reasking every visit if I reject.

Guess what, the GDPR doesn't allow that either.