One of the most insane things about GDPR today are the banners that split cookies by purpose and then allow you to toggle consent and legitimate interest for each.
This makes zero sense! A toggle is literally consent. A company's legitimate interest is something they have, not something I can consent to! This is just a ridiculous way to add way too many toggles to be practical to untick
Is this really insane about the GDPR though? My experience is that companies go out of their way to make their GDPR compliance as malicious as possible, hoping that people will blame the law, not the shady practices of the company. They did the same with the cookie banners as well, and were very successful on that front.
@Techaltar I agree on the vagueness of the rules, the way that I, and legal, read that part, when the GDPR was coming in (I worked at a place where it was a very big thing) was that legitimate interest didn't need consent at all but that legitimate interest was very narrow.
Of course those memories are now quite far away as I haven't been focused on it since I left that company.
I think we can blame both the GDPR for being too vague, and the companies for their malicious compliance.
@Techaltar many cookie pop-up are misinterpretations of the gdpr pillars. If lawyers were involved, then they were deliberate to confuse the users.
The latest examples are the "accept or pay" pop-ups which are popular in Germany and France. They have been deemed illegal by the authorities and publications still use them.
@Techaltar Not an insane thing about the GDPR, it's an insane thing about malicious compliance. Make it too hard to set things up and people will give up, usually to your benefit. There are a lot of sensible consent systems, so this is a definite choice on their part.
I find the Cookie AutoDelete plugin to be incredibly useful in this environment. I no longer care whether they're maliciously compliant, as soon as the tab closes all their cookies disappear.
@Techaltar this!!!
Only adjacently related, but I use Ghostery which, among other things, has an automatic cookie reject function. Works reasonably well for me.
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