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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* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I can't remember if the latest recommendation is that using LocalCDN or Decentraleyes is good because it blocks those CDNs from tracking you, or bad because it makes your browser fingerprint more unique.