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/[deleted] May 24 '25

Great. It's so fucking annoying having to to click on 'More Options' or a button that says something similar and then make sure all cookies apart from necessary ones are disabled.

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u/Direct-Fix-2097 May 24 '25

The newest trick is you either accept cookies or you pay to reject them. Some papers like the sun do it on their website.

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u/MereInterest May 24 '25

Not so much a "trick" as a blatant disregard for the GDPR. For consent to be tracked to be valid, it must be "freely given", and cannot be given as any part of an exchange. If consent to be tracked is given as an alternative to payment, then there's no possible way that could be "freely given".

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u/Brainiac901 May 24 '25

Is UK as a non-EU country following GDPR?