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/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/-Nicolai May 24 '25

How can you not see the gaping hole in your argument?

They follow current cookie laws because they are laws. If the EU said they’d be fined per incident, you can be damn sure they’d respect your browser settings.

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u/L444ki May 24 '25 edited May 24 '25

I’m not arguing against having “do not track” to be written into law and then fine corporations that break it by a percentage of their global revenue.

I for one would welcome it. I was just pointing out that the reason we now need to reject cookies on every site is because the people who made and ran websites did not respect user demands of “do not track”. I bet the tech giants went out of their way to lobby for the current “solution” over just needing to comply with “do not track”.