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Re:Dark patterns after the GDPR: consent pop-ups and their i... by Nextgrid on Friday March 05, 2021 @02:04PM (#26360668)
The problem is that the GDPR is not being enforced properly. The GDPR explicitly bans annoying/misleading consent prompts, so this shouldn't be an issue if the law was enforced. It explicitly learned from the earlier "cookie law" which merely enforced disclosure and led to stupid & useless cookie banners with no easy way for the user to actually act on them.
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Re:Dark patterns after the GDPR: consent pop-ups and their i... by harrybr on Friday March 05, 2021 @04:34PM (#26362411)
Exactly. It’s amazing that this is not widely known. The deceptive GDPR pop-ups we all hate are not GDPR compliant!
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Re:Dark patterns after the GDPR: consent pop-ups and their i... by icod on Friday March 05, 2021 @08:47PM (#26364477)
But you can't do anything about it, legally.

You can complain to your country's data protection expert, and they will tell you this or that company blah blah but not act. Nothing ever happened. I filed 3 complaints in 2 countries. 2/3 took over a year to receive a response. 1 took about 6 months and nothing changed.

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