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Re:French watchdog fines Google, Amazon for breaching cookie... by mxmel on Thursday December 10, 2020 @06:15PM (#25380107)
How are you supposed to track that someone has consented if you disable tracking? I’m assuming that declining means you can’t use any form of storage.
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Re:French watchdog fines Google, Amazon for breaching cookie... by Macha on Friday December 11, 2020 @09:38AM (#25386258)
"trackingEnabled: 0" does not require consent and lets you acknowledge

"consentId: abc134" then looking that up in or even "consentDenied: exact timestamp" could be used to identify a user so would require consent. I suspect lots of companies want to use the second so they can choose to bug you for [more] consent at a later date, or choose to interpret the first as not allowed in case bugging the user again enough times does get consent.

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Re:French watchdog fines Google, Amazon for breaching cookie... by Nextgrid on Thursday December 10, 2020 @06:41PM (#25380331)
Cookies for functional purposes are allowed without consent.
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