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2025-05-15 11:45:14

aral@mastodon.ar.al

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.

https://www.iccl.ie/digital-data/eu-ruling-tracking-based-advertising-by-google-microsoft-amazon-x-across-europe-has-no-legal-basis/

#TCF #consent #data #privacy #EU #GDPR #BigTech #maliciousCompliance #SiliconValley #adtech #technoFascism

2025-05-15 11:48:33

Daniel 黄法官 CyReVolt 🐢

CyReVolt@mastodon.social

@aral always have been... good to see that people keep up the fight against this. 🙅

2025-05-15 11:52:42

Limnetic Villains

limneticvillains@mastodon.online

@aral 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.

2025-05-15 12:00:59

Aral Balkan

aral@mastodon.ar.al

@limneticvillains Well, legal clarity is one thing. Enforcement is another. I guess we’ll see.

2025-05-15 12:07:57

Limnetic Villains

limneticvillains@mastodon.online

@aral 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.

2025-05-15 12:20:27

Lyrial

lyrial@transfem.social

@aral@mastodon.ar.al Have you tried not using corporate media at all?

2025-05-15 16:36:29

Aral Balkan

aral@mastodon.ar.al

@lyrial The idea isn’t to become hermits. The idea is to change the mainstream for the better so we don’t have to become hermits.

2025-05-15 12:24:14

Detlef Steuer

drdelle@mastodon.social

@aral "Applies immediately across Europe" I won't hold my breath, but there is hope for change!

2025-05-15 12:24:41

jeancf

jeancf@mastodon.online

@aral Ironically, the page of the Belgian lawyer that helped win the case... has consent cookie.

2025-05-15 13:48:07

Clu | #RipNatenom 🕯

moskitokoenig@dizl.de

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.

@aral

2025-05-15 14:19:03

Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷

KimSJ@mastodon.social

@aral
This is a really big deal!

2025-05-15 14:57:10

shyam123

shyam123@mas.to

@aral

Make the Smart Choice: Protect Your Wallet with Plans from $29/Month

https://bestusacarprotection.online/

2025-05-15 15:02:44

T Jones NoKings FilmICE

FrozenPeach@beige.party

@shyam123 @aral

Report ^ until suspended

2025-05-15 16:33:46

Aral Balkan

aral@mastodon.ar.al

@FrozenPeach @shyam123@mas.to Suspended both on my server and theirs now. Thanks for the heads up :)

2025-05-15 15:46:38

shyam1234

shyam1234@masto.nyc

@aral

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https://bestusacarprotection.online/

2025-05-15 15:53:11

shyam1234

shyam1234@ieji.de

@aral

Smarter Choices, Lower Costs – Insurance from $29/Month

https://bestusacarprotection.online/

2025-05-15 16:00:33

shyam1234

shyam1234@glasgow.social

@aral

Smarter Choices, Lower Costs – Insurance from $29/Month

https://bestusacarprotection.online/

2025-05-15 16:03:25

moving_target01

moving_target01@sfba.social

@aral

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.

2025-05-15 16:12:06

stux⚡

stux@mstdn.social

@aral I see those warnings as:

"Don't visit this site"

It often works since my mouse clicks on the little cross 😀

2025-05-15 16:32:24

Aral Balkan

aral@mastodon.ar.al

@stux Yep :)

2025-05-15 16:30:17

Tom 🇵🇸 🇺🇦

tom@subdued.social

@aral This is the first time I've encountered the phrase "malicious compliance", and it's so concise, descriptive and accurate. Thanks!

2025-05-15 16:58:33

Collette Lynner

collette@sfba.social

@aral keeping all weblings employed

2025-05-15 19:09:40

Pierric

PierricD@mastodon.green

@aral 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?

2025-05-15 22:29:43

Andy Flisher

andyflisher@mastodon.social

@aral Looking forward to the EU Internet becoming more user friendly again if nothing else.

2025-05-15 22:41:32

Dave 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 🇬🇱 🇲🇽

TheLancashireman@hostux.social

@aral

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.

2025-05-15 23:54:01

Witty Dragon

WittyDragon@masto.nu

@aral
So is a huge fine being sent to all of them or just a slap on the wrist?
#Google, #Meta, #Amazon, #Apple, etc don't care about #EU ruling. Until fines TRULY hurt their pockets, they prefer to continue with their profits and pay the price once in a while.
How many of these companies have been fined for similar behaviour in the past? Have they changed it? Yes, they are making their malpractices more hidden and sophisticated.
Bureaucrats don't understand tech well enough to punish them.

2025-05-16 03:36:47

DrYak

dryak@mstdn.science

@aral "- 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.
https://consentomatic.au.dk/

(note: on mobile you have to use FireFox as other mobile browsers do not support extensions)