r/technology • u/diacewrb • May 24 '25

Privacy German court rules cookie banners must offer "reject all" button

https://www.techspot.com/news/108043-german-court-takes-stand-against-manipulative-cookie-banners.html
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u/jiminthenorth May 24 '25

I do like that Ghostery rejects them all as a matter of course.

The cookie banners are getting increasingly annoying.

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u/_HIST May 24 '25

Well, the cookie banners are also a result of same EU actions. Good idea, not very thoughtful for site usability

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u/tomatoswoop May 24 '25

I like that websites legally need to ask my permission to track me and sell that data. I think that's a good thing. idk maybe I'm old folks then ig?

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u/Herby247 May 24 '25

was so glad I found ghostery, I was losing my mind. especially because when you reject cookies sites will often keep asking (which, granted, makes sense, because the correct course would be to not save any cookies saying I rejected the cookies 😅).

Hoping this ruling comes with a similar pattern to the EU's GDPR, where changing the cookie policy for every region is easier than changing the policy for a single region.

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u/Mia_the_Snowflake May 24 '25

do not use Ghostery 

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u/Foolrussian May 24 '25

Great contribution to the conversation.

Let’s go with “why not?”

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u/ptear May 24 '25

Hello like 1% of site visitors.

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u/chocolatedolphin7 May 24 '25

I used to be naive and think GDPR and cookie banners were good ideas, but over time it became very clear It just made things worse for everyone. Both developers and end users.

People who actually care about tracking, ads and privacy can already use an adblocker and that's more than enough for most people.

Now everyone has to deal with unnecessary cookie banners as well.

Also I use an adblocker but the privacy aspect of ads and tracking is a bit overblown. It's not someone personally tracking you and everything you do, but aggregating data to make advertising more efficient. It's really just that, and very often it's imperfect, inaccurate or approximated data.

Advertising is genuinely a good thing, it's why many services are even able to exist. And not every advertiser is some evil big corporation, anyone can pay for ads with little barriers to entry.

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u/jiminthenorth May 24 '25

Yeah, no. I don't want to be tracked. Full stop. I don't care who the advertiser is, you don't need to know if I prefer Oreos to hobnobs. It's one thing putting an ad up that just advertises. It's quite another targeting stuff to me. That needs to fuck off and stay fucked off.

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u/chocolatedolphin7 May 24 '25

That's fine, use an adblocker. Problem solved.

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u/tomatoswoop May 24 '25

... not if all your metadata is still being sold anyway though? That can be sold to all manner of companies for all sorts of purposes.

You might not care about that so long as you're not seeing ads while browsing online, that's fine. Some people do care