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Re: Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked

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Post by phito »

bambax wrote: post #93
davidweatherall wrote: post #2

The author's consent form is very simple and isn't using any shady UX tricks to get the user to consent. One action will opt you in, one action will opt you out. I wonder what results you would see for something like yahoo, the daily mail, reddit, or other sites that heavily rely on ad revenue, which attempt to force the user to accept the cookies through non-obvious no buttons, or long processes to opt out of cookie…

Why would anyone consent to be tracked if given a real choice? What are the benefits? The 9% look like an error.

I know people who just automatically click yes. I don't think they ever even cared to read what is says. They just have the habit to click yes to every prompt to "make sure it works"

Re: Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked

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Post by HenryBemis »

beshrkayali wrote: post #14
shmageggy wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Verizon/Yahoo/Techcrunch is such a blatant offender, and especially noticable because they get posted here often. Their modal is a giant obfuscation dark-pattern, and far as I can tell, there is no way to opt out.

Which is why GDPR, although theoretically a good idea, is pretty much useless in practice. I'd like to see how many websites offer a reasonable consent widget that doesn't opt you in by default, keep nothing checking but a huge button to tick and accept, or the usual million-and-one checkboxes to untick, and many other cheap tricks that even the most vigilant of consumers will fall to at some point. I use everything…

So apparently we (EU) have the right to rip a new one to any big-ass company that is too mucho and gives zero shit about our Right to Privacy. I think that this got you downvoted.

I also do my best to avoid tracking (Firefox add-ons, Hosts file). But up until now I had no leverage against any companies. Now they ought to be afraid when they play dirty.

Re: Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked

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Post by mpclark »

Semaphor wrote: post #39
rocho wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, exactly. I hoped that he would repeat the experiment with a tricky one, like the horrendous forms served by Quantcast. In those, if you click "Reject all" nothing happens! How is that even allowed boggles my mind.

> How is that even allowed boggles my mind. It is not. But GDPR is sorely lacking enforcement with regard to tracking consent. The last time I checked only 3 cases were brought up (all in spain), and all of those would already have been illegal before GDPR in my non-lawyer opinion.

It's a screw-tightening process. We've only just started, but proper enforcement will surely follow at some point.

Re: Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked

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Post by hfyksehuefs »

davidweatherall wrote: post #2

The author's consent form is very simple and isn't using any shady UX tricks to get the user to consent. One action will opt you in, one action will opt you out. I wonder what results you would see for something like yahoo, the daily mail, reddit, or other sites that heavily rely on ad revenue, which attempt to force the user to accept the cookies through non-obvious no buttons, or long processes to opt out of cookie…

airbnb is one of the worst offenders of making it impossible to opt out UX wise. They give you a list of like 30 individual cookies to opt out of - so 30 clicks to opt out and no way of disabling all at once. For a company that prides itself on design and UX this is appalling.

Re: Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked

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Post by mrweasel »

beshrkayali wrote: post #14
shmageggy wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Verizon/Yahoo/Techcrunch is such a blatant offender, and especially noticable because they get posted here often. Their modal is a giant obfuscation dark-pattern, and far as I can tell, there is no way to opt out.

Which is why GDPR, although theoretically a good idea, is pretty much useless in practice. I'd like to see how many websites offer a reasonable consent widget that doesn't opt you in by default, keep nothing checking but a huge button to tick and accept, or the usual million-and-one checkboxes to untick, and many other cheap tricks that even the most vigilant of consumers will fall to at some point. I use everything…

> is pretty much useless in practice

It's useless because only a few people care enough to report these violations. If anything we need a campaign to get people to start reporting sites which violate the GDPR requirement of an informed opt-in.

Re: Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked

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Post by Angostura »

bambax wrote: post #93
davidweatherall wrote: post #2

The author's consent form is very simple and isn't using any shady UX tricks to get the user to consent. One action will opt you in, one action will opt you out. I wonder what results you would see for something like yahoo, the daily mail, reddit, or other sites that heavily rely on ad revenue, which attempt to force the user to accept the cookies through non-obvious no buttons, or long processes to opt out of cookie…

Why would anyone consent to be tracked if given a real choice? What are the benefits? The 9% look like an error.

I consent to website 'Measurement' cookies - I'm happy for most websites to do statistical analysis on their visitors. I opt out of marketing cookies etc.

Re: Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked

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Post by tuco86 »

Fiveplus wrote: post #23

The article says mobile users are more likely to engage with the banner. Rightly so, cause it takes up precious screen real estate. What are some ways I can protect myself more when browsing the web through my phone?

if it's an android, I'm very happy with firefox + ublock.

Re: Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked

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Post by ElLapidas »

davidweatherall wrote: post #2

The author's consent form is very simple and isn't using any shady UX tricks to get the user to consent. One action will opt you in, one action will opt you out. I wonder what results you would see for something like yahoo, the daily mail, reddit, or other sites that heavily rely on ad revenue, which attempt to force the user to accept the cookies through non-obvious no buttons, or long processes to opt out of cookie…

Non-obvious buttons? If the end user is dumb we shouldn't blame the companies.

Re: Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked

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Post by chillfox »

Mirioron wrote: post #70
black_puppydog wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry, privacy as a personal responsibility has failed outright. For many services there is simply no (online, i.e. practically relevant) alternative, because none of the market players have an incentive to be privacy preserving (think major news outlets) or because the service is not interchangable due to network effects (facebook, twitter etc). The GDPR is actually sufficiently abstract IMO to make government enfor…

> For many services there is simply no (online, i.e. practically relevant) alternative, because none of the market players have an incentive to be privacy preserving (think major news outlets) or because the service is not interchangable due to network effects (facebook, twitter etc). But here's the big question: would these services have even existed in the first place if these laws had been in place? The internet h…

It can easily be argued that a lot of these services are a net negative and it would have been better for everyone if they never got off the ground in the first place.
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