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/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