Google fined €150M, Facebook €60M for for non-compliance with French legislation

Re:Google fined €150M, Facebook €60M for for non-compliance ... by ceejayoz on Thursday January 06, 2022 @06:56AM (#29822481)

Default it to on.

Apple did that with their tracking preventer and something like 96% of people left it that way.

Off would be rare, and those people would be the ones who wanted to be tracked anyways.

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Re:Google fined €150M, Facebook €60M for for non-compliance ... by Nextgrid on Thursday January 06, 2022 @06:59AM (#29822496)

Apple's App Tracking Transparency (if that's what you're referring to, as opposed to Intelligent Tracking Prevention) doesn't even default to anything. It asks you and gives you two equally-prominent options, but indeed even in that case the acceptance rate is still just 4% which I assume is either misclicks or ad-tech people.

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Re:Google fined €150M, Facebook €60M for for non-compliance ... by wincy on Thursday January 06, 2022 @11:11AM (#29825378)

I use TextNow sometimes and it asks me to allow tracking so it can remain free. It asked nicely so I allowed tracking.

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Re:Google fined €150M, Facebook €60M for for non-compliance ... by nyuszika7h on Thursday January 06, 2022 @08:16AM (#29823152)

MS defaulting it to on is pretty much what killed the whole thing and everyone started ignoring DNT.

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Re:Google fined €150M, Facebook €60M for for non-compliance ... by ceejayoz on Thursday January 06, 2022 @08:43AM (#29823407)

Sure, it only works with corresponding regulation imposing consequences for ignoring it.

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