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Re:Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked by rocho on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @05:13AM (#23757176)
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.

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Re:Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked by hadrien01 on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @05:35AM (#23757307)
That's the website fault. The Quantcast form is highly configurable, you can choose to display a "I do not accept" button on the first screen
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Re:Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked by Thiez on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @06:10AM (#23757514)
It really shouldn't be possible not to display that button on the first screen, because opting out should be as easy as opting in. Unless the first screen also doesn't have an 'accept' button, but I've never seen that.
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Re:Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked by Semaphor on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @05:22AM (#23757244)
> 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.

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Re:Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked by mpclark on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @06:21AM (#23757580)
It's a screw-tightening process. We've only just started, but proper enforcement will surely follow at some point.
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Re:Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked by ginko on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @05:17AM (#23757204)
It isn't.
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