TikTok hit with consumer law breaches complaints across Europe

Re:TikTok hit with consumer law breaches complaints across E... by retSava on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @11:11AM (#26155263)

Well, it is better, since I assume that you don't click "yes, allow". If you would, you would likely have a cookie saying "he/she is ours" with a lifetime longer than the heatdeath of the universe. If you dare to click no, that's when you get 10k options and optouts and have to send fax to someones grandma.

The root cause of your experience being worse is not the legislation, it's that the site doesn't follow the intent/purpose of the law. They want to annoy you until you click "yes".

They could simply present you with a yes/no modal once and be done with it, but they choose not to, hoping that they will break you down with time.

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Re:TikTok hit with consumer law breaches complaints across E... by XCSme on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @11:13AM (#26155302)

> They could simply present you with a yes/no modal once and be done with it

Any extra modal, as simple as it might be, leads to a really bad user experience and wasted time.

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Re:TikTok hit with consumer law breaches complaints across E... by slavak on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @12:16PM (#26156190)

Then don't place cookies that aren't necessary for the delivery of your service. There, problem solved!

If invading your users' privacy is more important than your site's user experience, then the blame is on you, not the legislation.

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Re:TikTok hit with consumer law breaches complaints across E... by stale2002 on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @02:42PM (#26157874)

No, legislators don't get to ignore the unintended consequences of the laws that they implement.

This applies to all laws that are passed. It is a frequent criticism and problem, of laws, is that there are often unintended consequences. And that is the fault of the law, that they did not consider the unintended consequences.

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Re:TikTok hit with consumer law breaches complaints across E... by XCSme on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @05:24PM (#26159522)

I agree, don't publish a law that you can't or don't know how to enforce.

What they should have done is made a public tool that checks your website and says: yes this site is GDPR compliant or no, it is not because A,B,C.

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