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The quickest nope of a cookies popup I've ever seen (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by foofighter@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Never seen one to address the amount of externals they send your data to. Could be a EU thing?

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[–] tae_glas@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 days ago

usually, that format involves toggling off every single one of their third party partners, and then a separate toggle is further down for each one's "legitimate use" or something.

they're clearly hoping that by making it incredibly time-consuming to go through every option, that most people would give in and accept all.

i don't think that's supposed to be allowed under GDPR, but making complaints is also time-consuming. i'd rather just leave those sites immediately after seeing there's no "reject all" and make a mental note that their stinky site is unusable 🤷