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If you could magically make
everyone everywhere instantly understand and integrate one concept related to data privacy,
which one would it be? 
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Jens Bannmann ⁂@Em0nM4stodon
That EU law does not require a #CookieBanner unless the web site wants to track your clicks or sell your data.
Because people do not understand this, they think "stupid EU law" instead of...
- "website owner has no respect for consumer rights"
- "website owner has no solid business plan and just hopes for a few bucks from the advertisement industry"
crlf@tynstar in many cases (small sites) the website owner don't understand it, either. So they end up installing a generic and obnoxious banner which was not needed. Or they are just for some analytics they don't really look at.
Big companies have resources to do these things properly, though (even if they are often as clueless).
I would wish they understood however that they MUST make the options equally accessible. So, if they want to put some tracking 🍪 for a non-essential purpose (like sharing my whereabouts with their hundreds of partners so they can build a better profile which they then sell to more "partners"), they cannot promote "their" preference for the acceptance.
So, if they put a one-click Accept-all button, I must be able not to accept any of them in one click as well. Not five, not three, one as well (or alternatively, make the acceptance as longer as the other).
And let's not get started with those considering that it's legitimate to require a subscription for not getting tracked...
Cc: @Em0nM4stodon
Jeremy Burgess@crlf @tynstar @Em0nM4stodon I get SO annoyed with the one click 'Accept all' versus expanding several sections to find all the 'legitimate interest' options and disabling then one by one.
And that's why I use Brave...