Europe’s cookie consent reckoning is coming

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Post by Liriel » Mon, May 31, 2021, 6:31 AM UTC

Europe’s cookie consent reckoning is coming
techcrunch.com

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#2

Post by underyx » Mon, May 31, 2021, 8:01 AM UTC

For a comedic experience, open this article with your ad blocker turned off.

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Post by Bancakes » Mon, May 31, 2021, 8:06 AM UTC

Real article link: https://outline.com/qtxEx3

The blurred webpage is a lie - just a jpeg. Plus, it's a yahoo consent domain. Very ironic.

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Post by WA » Mon, May 31, 2021, 8:08 AM UTC

Sounds good. Target https://www.consentmanager.net/ and similar services and it'll trickle down to a lot of websites.

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Post by kkz » Mon, May 31, 2021, 8:08 AM UTC

And they employ exactly the same tactics they describe. TC is such a pile of gunk.

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Post by cluoma » Mon, May 31, 2021, 8:11 AM UTC

An article dissing cookie popups has a cookie popup with no easy opt out. Amazing.

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Post by mewpmewp2 » Mon, May 31, 2021, 8:16 AM UTC

Besides an automated system, I'm wondering if we could benefit from some sort of reporting tool to report sites abusing this UX, with hall of shame and if possible make it easy for the enforcers to know what to focus on.

So folks can report a site if a) it has poor UX to reject all b) despite rejecting all it still uses cookies invalidly.

Seems like something like that would already exist?

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Post by 50kIters » Mon, May 31, 2021, 8:29 AM UTC

Ironic that the cookie-wall on this site commits offence #1 as outlined in the article.

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Post by jwr » Mon, May 31, 2021, 8:30 AM UTC

So happy to see that happening. Companies are making a mockery of the laws with the tracking "consent" mazes, auto-enabled "legitimate interest" boxes, etc.

I am also amazed how it's possible to track customers across devices forever, but it seemingly isn't possible to remember my refusal and it is necessary to ask me again very often.

I really hope this reckoning is going to move forward.

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Post by dukoid » Mon, May 31, 2021, 8:33 AM UTC

Ideally there would be a standardized opt-out button with a recognizable icon in a banner of limited size at the top