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Comment on "Do Not Track" is a legally binding order, German Court tells LinkedIn

bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Luckily in Germany the law states that at least the “Decline all cookies” button has to be in the same place as the “Accept all cookies” one. So at least the local sites are kind of easy to navigate.

Only problem at the moment are “Accept all cookies or buy a subscription” banners. But as far as I know the courts are inclined to side with the customers on this one as well.

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Augustiner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I mean, most companies still don’t abide by it tho. There’s lots of sites where you can accept all cookies or you have to jump through a few hoops to decline the non essential ones.

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- slumberlust@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Am I supposed to trust the company to correctly define ‘essential?’ Seems easy to weasel around and makes me nervous.
  
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  - ahornsirup@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    It’s almost certainly going to be litigated at some point, so a court is going to define “essential”… eventually.
    
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  - Augustiner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Also a good point, I agree
    
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- WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I just open any site with one of those cookie-banners in a private window so that any cookie it creates will be deleted as soon as the window is closed.
  
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ultratiem@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Another ridiculous half measure that I need to actively engage with a website to avoid being harvested.

They should have made websites not track be default. If I want to be tracked, then I can go and hunt down a link for the pleasure.

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- purplemonkeymad@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Do not track is the default position. However websites really want to track you. They choose to gate their website behind that popup.
  
  Remember you can follow gdpr without these popups on your website.
  
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