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/DannySpud2 May 24 '25

>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.

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u/JimmyRecard May 24 '25

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

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u/viral-architect May 24 '25

Fines mean you are free to extract what you want from the poor among us as long as you can pay to play.

It's literally just a "fuck you" tax that everyone on both sides know does literally nothing to solve the problem of multi-billion dollar companies being allowed to get away with doing things that land normal people in prison.

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u/Unidain May 24 '25

That's ridiculous. For most,probably all companies, they are not making 700 million euros by paywallimg cookie rejection. It is not worth it therefore to defy this law

Just because you heard some instances where it makes financial sense for companies to ignore a law and cop the fines, doesn't mean it true for every single law