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.
#TCF #consent #data #privacy #EU #GDPR #BigTech #maliciousCompliance #SiliconValley #adtech #technoFascism
Ublock has an “annoyances” filter section that removes 95% of these
The “cookies” thing is a red herring.
Two observations:- Most sites have already set cookies before the pop-up. After it, they set at least one more.
- The cookies themselves are fairly harmless. The harm comes from the 3rd-party objects that many web pages pull in. google analytics, google fonts, facebook icons etc. I’ve even found banking web pages that access google even though (or before) you decline.
Now we just need someone to explain it to them in language they can understand. So don’t charge them peanuts or “I’ll pay out of my petty cash as a tip”, but in a way that has a real learning effect or, even better, a deterrent effect for these grifter actors.
It’s great to see it being actively called out in a court of law. How will this be enforced? Companies will not comply unless compelled to do so.
It would be great if part of the requirements on these companies is that they’re already collected databases (and any/all backups) had to be 100% wiped.
Along with that, a respected tech outlet should detail how the average person can install add-ons (Ghostery, uBlock Origin, etc) to their browser to help negate this sort of thing from happening again.
Then offer a more advanced method (ie. PiHole with suggested block lists) for those more savvy.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al
This is a really big deal!@aral@mastodon.ar.al “Applies immediately across Europe” I won’t hold my breath, but there is hope for change!
@aral@mastodon.ar.al I see those warnings as:
“Don’t visit this site”
It often works since my mouse clicks on the little cross 😀
@stux@mstdn.social Yep :)
@aral@mastodon.ar.al Ironically, the page of the Belgian lawyer that helped win the case… has consent cookie.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al keeping all weblings employed
@aral@mastodon.ar.al “- What pop ups?”
…says the guy using consent-o-matic.Seriously: i recomend it, it’s a great tool directly addressing such malicious compliance and associated dark patterns.
(note: on mobile you have to use FireFox as other mobile browsers do not support extensions)
@aral@mastodon.ar.al that’s one way to fix the internet!
@aral@mastodon.ar.al always have been… good to see that people keep up the fight against this. 🙅
@aral@mastodon.ar.al Great, those fucking things have been pissing me off for ages now. Maybe now they’ll vanish, and if more paywalls come up so be it, I’m rapidly losing interest in bypassing them only to see someone trying to sell me biased info or opinion piece drivel.
@limneticvillains@mastodon.online Well, legal clarity is one thing. Enforcement is another. I guess we’ll see.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al Someone needs to open up a website where anyone can drop a url that has these bloody tracking things in em and then if confirmed they get listed on a wall of shame.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al i’ll confess to ignorance here. I see a lot of popups and I know the big lines of gdpr, but I don’t know what TCF actually is. I couldn’t understand from the link or a quick search. Is there a 5-year-old-with-IT-background explanation somewhere?
