Paddy66@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 2 months agoSham consent popups finally deemed illegal! 🎉www.iccl.ieexternal-linkmessage-square14linkfedilinkarrow-up134arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
arrow-up134arrow-down1external-linkSham consent popups finally deemed illegal! 🎉www.iccl.iePaddy66@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 2 months agomessage-square14linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
minus-squareMummifiedClient5000@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 months agoYou can recognize TCF is used when cookie banners have near-nonsense options for thousands of “partners”.
minus-squarePaddy66@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·2 months agoTotally. And that “legitimate interest” nonsense takes ages to click through 🤦
minus-squarePlagiatus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoI’m using this extension on FF, it seems to be doing a decent job at unchecking all the boxes for me: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/
minus-squarelime!@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoif you’re trying to circumvent them the best method is to just disable javascript. the next best method is ublock filterlists. but i do use consentomatic as well because i’m lazy.
minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-22 months agoThis is illegal, they are required to be opt-in, default toggled off.
minus-squareMummifiedClient5000@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months ago“legitimate interest” is kind of a loophole, because there is some legal basis for it. This is why they think it is OK to leave it on by default. It’s obviously not OK and those data pigs should burn in hell.
You can recognize TCF is used when cookie banners have near-nonsense options for thousands of “partners”.
Totally. And that “legitimate interest” nonsense takes ages to click through 🤦
I’m using this extension on FF, it seems to be doing a decent job at unchecking all the boxes for me: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/
if you’re trying to circumvent them the best method is to just disable javascript. the next best method is ublock filterlists. but i do use consentomatic as well because i’m lazy.
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This is illegal, they are required to be opt-in, default toggled off.
“legitimate interest” is kind of a loophole, because there is some legal basis for it. This is why they think it is OK to leave it on by default.
It’s obviously not OK and those data pigs should burn in hell.