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Re:EU’s War on Behavioral Advertising by LelouBil on Saturday August 26, 2023 @04:44AM (#37270866)
When you have a truly compliant gdpr dialog, aka simple yes/no, I found lots of non tech people around me click no. I'd say about 50%
Re:EU’s War on Behavioral Advertising by filipheremans on Saturday August 26, 2023 @05:30AM (#37271070)
We serve a web application for logistics so our users are planners, administrative people, drivers, etc and we see the same behaviour. A lot of users ignore the dialog (so no analytics can be used, default to answering no) and learn to live with the cookie pop-up in the corner of the screen.. :-D
Re:EU’s War on Behavioral Advertising by developer93 on Saturday August 26, 2023 @05:12AM (#37270986)
Personally I nearly always take the time to scroll through and untick all the permissions, or find a different site because screw them, that's why. I realise I'm in the minority.
Re:EU’s War on Behavioral Advertising by malermeister on Saturday August 26, 2023 @06:09AM (#37271331)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-mat...

This should make it a lot easier :) It auto-handles most gdpr permission walls, and yes, you can set it to reject all - that's what I do!

(I'm sure this exists for Chrome, too, but if you care about this sort of thing you really should be using Firefox!)

Re:EU’s War on Behavioral Advertising by drakonka on Saturday August 26, 2023 @06:58AM (#37271631)
Thank you for this; I've been manually unticking everything since these regulations came into effect and have to admit it was getting a bit tiring (plus sometimes I was too hasty and accidentally clicked "Accept" when the cookie buttons were in a weird order or had non-standard wording.) I hope this helps me decline all the things more efficiently.
Re:EU’s War on Behavioral Advertising by folmar on Saturday August 26, 2023 @08:26AM (#37272196)
Just remove the dialogs with ublock filters; this is supposed to mean no consent. Most spy networks don't care and track before you click anyway.
Re:EU’s War on Behavioral Advertising by developer93 on Sunday August 27, 2023 @01:49AM (#37279767)
Well, that made me unreasonably happy, thank you Edit: and then realise it's not applicable to android Firefox where I do most of my browsing, but thank you anyway.
Re:EU’s War on Behavioral Advertising by rcMgD2BwE72F on Monday August 28, 2023 @07:32AM (#37292476)
I much prefer https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies (far more reliable in my experience)
Re:EU’s War on Behavioral Advertising by uoaei on Saturday August 26, 2023 @07:24AM (#37271771)
GDPR mandates that they are all already unchecked except for the so-called "essential" or "functional" ones.
Re:EU’s War on Behavioral Advertising by frereubu on Saturday August 26, 2023 @10:58AM (#37273476)
I wish I had more time and / or money because this is commonly ignored, and I would love to take all organisations who don't abide by this to court just for the hell of it. Many times it's under the guise of "legitimate interest" under a separate unselected tab and I would love to test that in court.
Re:EU’s War on Behavioral Advertising by account42 on Monday August 28, 2023 @07:57AM (#37292699)
I feel like the EU should have made it so that you could actually sue corporations for GDRP violations (as long as you have enough evidence for a court to hear the case) and for the accuser to get part of the fine if you win. Would have been a much more effective enforcement strategy.
Re:EU’s War on Behavioral Advertising by developer93 on Sunday August 27, 2023 @01:48AM (#37279760)
Weil, good for GDPR. Meantime, is there anything I can do to report sites that don't follow the letter of it?
Re:EU’s War on Behavioral Advertising by LelouBil on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @05:50PM (#37329633)
Re:EU’s War on Behavioral Advertising by troupo on Saturday August 26, 2023 @07:53AM (#37271950)
When Apple implemented "Ask app to not track", the click through on "Ask to not track" was 90%.

People care about this, so no wonders the industry as a while is up in arms about it.

Re:EU’s War on Behavioral Advertising by mantas on Saturday August 26, 2023 @09:07AM (#37272527)
I rarely see yes/no. Websites doing no tracking (thus no dialog) seem more common. Usually it’s „accept recommended trackers“ or customize by unchecking trackers one by one.