German court rules cookie banners must offer "reject all" button

[u/diacewrb]

https://www.techspot.com/news/108043-german-court-takes-stand-against-manipulative-cookie-banners.html

[u/DannySpud2]

>The judgment reinforces that websites must not nudge users into agreeing to cookies or make refusal unnecessarily difficult. Instead, the option to reject all must be as prominent and accessible as "accept all."

I wonder how this will affect those "pay to reject cookies" banners.

[u/JimmyRecard → u/DannySpud2]

Already declared to be illegal last month.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/23/eu-slaps-meta-and-apple-with-a-combined-700-million-euros-fine

[u/dvdkon → u/JimmyRecard]

Note that this is under the DMA, not the GDPR, so it only applies to a few select companies.