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Re:Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target Browsers, N...
on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @09:02AM (#45668443)
But the courts are saying: the law does NOT allow this.
So maybe “malicious compliance” is a misnomer. We should just call it "illegal dark pattern".
Re:Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target Browsers, N...
on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @08:36AM (#45668112)
The problem here is not the law, but malicious compliance by websites that don't want to give up tracking.
"Spend Five Minutes in a Menu of Legalese" is not the intended alternative to "Accept All". "Decline All" is! And this is starting to be enforced through the courts, so you're increasingly seeing the "Decline All" option right away. As it should be. https://www.techspot.com/news/108043-german-court-takes-stan...
Of course, also respecting a Do-Not-Track header and avoiding the cookie banner entirely while not tracking the user, would be even better.
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