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Those annoying “consent” cookie pop ups that Big Tech has been using as part of their malicious compliance efforts to convince you that data protection law in the EU is a nuisance? (mastodon.ar.al)

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Those annoying “consent” cookie pop ups that Big Tech has been using as part of their malicious compliance efforts to convince you that data protection law in the EU is a nuisance?

Turns out they’re illegal.

https://www.iccl.ie/digital-data/eu-ruling-tracking-based-advertising-by-google-microsoft-amazon-x-across-europe-has-no-legal-basis/

#TCF #consent #data #privacy #EU #GDPR #BigTech #maliciousCompliance #SiliconValley #adtech #technoFascism

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

@[email protected] "- What pop ups?"
...says the guy using consent-o-matic.

Seriously: i recomend it, it's a great tool directly addressing such malicious compliance and associated dark patterns.
https://consentomatic.au.dk/

(note: on mobile you have to use FireFox as other mobile browsers do not support extensions)