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Re:Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked by MaxBarraclough on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @05:11AM (#23757161)
> attempt to force the user to accept the cookies through non-obvious no buttons, or long processes to opt out of cookies

If I understand correctly, this sort of trickery is forbidden by the GDPR, but so far no-one has seen any consequences for doing do.

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Re:Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked by iamacyborg on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @05:17AM (#23757207)
> so far no-one has seen any consequences for doing do.

This is precisely the problem with the GDPR to date.

Last August the ICO (British regulatory body) stated that you can't run Analytics such as Google Analytics without a GDPR standard of consent. They've yet to enforce this despite tens of thousands of non-compliant websites.

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Re:Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked by Silhouette on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @05:33AM (#23757296)
Meanwhile, there has been talk of permitting first party analytics cookies without requiring explicit consent for at least as long as the GDPR has been around. IIRC, even the ICO previously indicated support for that position, though I can't immediately find a reference for that now.
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