Great news for online privacy!
ctrl+fguillotinectrl+fprisonctrl+fjailctrl+fsentencectrl+ffinenot illegal enough
This ruling does nearly nothing for privacy. All it does is confirm that the data captured by the framework (TCF) behind cookie banners (still legal) is personal data and thus subject to GDPR.
I thought all the cookie popups that don’t have Allow all, Deny all and Customize options were all illegal by default. So many of them have huge ALLOW ALL and denying is hidden in submenu where you need to uncheck 50 entires one by ond. Why it took them so damn long?
Also for 700+ companies to fester on anyone’s browsing data is just vomit inducing and should be illegal.
It’s in Belgium. How does it apply in Europe globally?
Today’s judgement confirms the Belgian Data Protection Authority’s 2022 decision. It applies immediately across Europe.
Dr Ryan of Enforce said “This decision is momentous. It creates a clear need for industry to innovate and move away from the dangerous, ineffective, and fraud-riddled racking-based advertising. RTB can operate without personal data. This decision shows that it must. This good news for every person online, and for publishers, too.”
You can recognize TCF is used when cookie banners have near-nonsense options for thousands of “partners”.
Totally. And that “legitimate interest” nonsense takes ages to click through 🤦
I’m using this extension on FF, it seems to be doing a decent job at unchecking all the boxes for me: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/
if you’re trying to circumvent them the best method is to just disable javascript. the next best method is ublock filterlists. but i do use consentomatic as well because i’m lazy.
Disabling JavaScript is pretty easy, use NoScript ! Then you can selectively allow just a few scripts, plus it’s fun to find out how few you can let run on each page.
That is a great find. Thank you!
