05-31-2021, 04:26 PM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-57306802
A privacy group has lodged hundreds of complaints against what it calls "cookie banner terror" online.
Noyb, headed by well-known Austrian privacy advocate Max Schrems, is targeting companies which it says deliberately make it hard to opt-out of tracking cookies.
"By law, users must be given a clear yes/no option," the group said.
Marketing groups have blamed the EU's strict privacy rules for creating the problem.
Cookies are used for all sorts of purposes, but one of their major uses is for third-party advertising tracking - which is why ads for a product you may have searched for "follows" you from website to website.
TBH, I find all the cookie consent forms irritating to begin with . I can understand requiring consent for marketing cookies (of which TCH has none ), but beyond that it's just an annoyance that I click through anyway.
But, yes - if sites are going to have marketing cookies, then they should make it easy to decline all of them. There should be the option of allowing and declining specific ones, but people who want to decline all of them shouldn't have to click through each one individually.
A privacy group has lodged hundreds of complaints against what it calls "cookie banner terror" online.
Noyb, headed by well-known Austrian privacy advocate Max Schrems, is targeting companies which it says deliberately make it hard to opt-out of tracking cookies.
"By law, users must be given a clear yes/no option," the group said.
Marketing groups have blamed the EU's strict privacy rules for creating the problem.
Cookies are used for all sorts of purposes, but one of their major uses is for third-party advertising tracking - which is why ads for a product you may have searched for "follows" you from website to website.
TBH, I find all the cookie consent forms irritating to begin with . I can understand requiring consent for marketing cookies (of which TCH has none ), but beyond that it's just an annoyance that I click through anyway.
But, yes - if sites are going to have marketing cookies, then they should make it easy to decline all of them. There should be the option of allowing and declining specific ones, but people who want to decline all of them shouldn't have to click through each one individually.
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