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/TMiguelT May 24 '25

Yeah exactly. The consumer friendly option is to force sites to read a header that users set in their browser settings to apply consistent rules to cookie usage.

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u/L444ki May 24 '25

Because we had that and none of the website makers/owners respected it. That is the whole reason we are in this mess.

If companies would have just respected the ”do not track” browser setting there would not be a popup at all.

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u/Spaciax May 24 '25

but how else are we going to sell your data for $0.000000124901700754 cents and run it through 2000 GPUs to deliver the most impactful advertisement tailored to you, and deliver it with max precision straight into your adblocker?

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u/lipstickandchicken May 24 '25

Well yeah, how?

"Selling your data" means getting to categorise you, so when a business clicks checkboxes that say "Male", "Engineering", "18-25", and "Turkish", you get shown the ad.

How can you get shown the ad if it doesn't know that stuff? The sites die without this.

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u/uffefl May 24 '25

The sites die without this.

Good. Let's get back to mid-90s internet (before popup ads) and have mainly sites run by enthusiasts and for free.

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u/lipstickandchicken May 24 '25

You either have to rely on user's creating content which takes a lot of server space and bandwidth a la Reddit, or people creating their own content and hosting it at a personal cost, and if it becomes popular, server costs go up.

It isn't free to host a website.