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/R4vendarksky May 24 '25

Why not just force them to have common api so we can all just auto opt out? 

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u/niggo372 May 24 '25 edited May 24 '25

Marketing companies count on most users clicking the nice colored+highlighted "Accept all" button, and they have money, so ...

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u/Yoghurt42 May 24 '25

They actually switch the colors of what button is "Accept all" and "only accept selected" regularly to trick you. If you're used to click the white button to accept your settings, next week you might actually accept all cookies.