just got my GDPR Wrapped ๐Ÿ‘€ learning so much about my browsing habits
@Ninji I just love reading how they and their 1423 partners value your privacy /s

@laura @Ninji

I love the new thing where they say they care about your privacy but you have to pay a monthly subscription if you actually want them to. /s

@benx @Ninji Ugh, oh right. Subscribe or accept all. Afaik it's not legal but then uh, I don't have the time and spoons to report all those sites to the local GDPR responsible (if I did, they'e very likely be fined but uh, well)

@laura @Ninji

I saw a video saying that too.

I was trying to remember an example and one of them is The Mirror (a pretty mainstream tabloid in the UK).

@benx @laura @Ninji it's interesting how different countries have different dark patterns. The pay for tracker free subscription seems to me is a German innovation (definitely a European Union thing, as it is based of a European court decision that they have to allow you to reject trackers... But they don't have to do so for free). The model I find even more evil is where you click on manage cookies and then you see the list where all trackers are per default off and you can say reject all, but they have a second tab "legitimate interest" where they are all on, which is not changed if you click reject all, and you have to individually object to every one of their 800 trackers. I think again it's illegal in EU, because if they actually have a legitimate interest they don't have to ask at all, if you can object and they still give you access that sort of proves they don't have a legitimate interest, but of course that will take another couple of years before courts decide.
@clumpytree @benx @laura @Ninji
All "Legitamate interest" means is they claim to have a use for the data they collect, other than just wanting it to resell it.
@duckwhistle @benx @laura @Ninji well "legitimate interest" is also a term from EU GDPR legislation, if they have a legitimate interest they can keep the data even without explicit consent. I am not a lawyer, but I believe there are some actual requirements for when an interest is legitimate, it cannot just be used for anything. If legitimate interest would cover tracker cookies, than all those cookie banners would indeed not be required. Legitimate interest is also not something I can agree or object to, either it is legitimate or not. At least that is my understanding of the GDPR.
@clumpytree
I'm talking about GDPR. The regulation is a lot more wordy but Legitimate Intrest is fairly loosly defined, so many campanies are working on the basis that if they say the data they are collecting is relevant to their business nobody is actually going to be able to check up on what they do with it, if they are outside the EU.