Now, I guess it's obvious to complain about the idiotic, user-hostile and down-right evil Oath consent pop-over that I got when I visited TC. I'm gonna do it anyway.
Here's hoping this ruling stands.
Now, I guess it's obvious to complain about the idiotic, user-hostile and down-right evil Oath consent pop-over that I got when I visited TC. I'm gonna do it anyway.
Here's hoping this ruling stands.
It says "Select 'OK' to authorise 'Oath' and our partners to use your data."
Is there a more general, less specific, way to phrase this? It's basically "please let anyone use your data for anything".
Also pretty sure they named the company Oath so that people would think "oh this is another OAuth permission box, OK".
I think that's just developer bias. "OAuth" is not a thing non-developers know, even by name.
Here's the script: https://pastebin.com/NfCyDLw8
Other dark patterns I've seen are -
A page attempts to put you off by making you manually deactivate hundreds of different services if you object to them (though they of course have a handy 'enable all' button).
A page gives you a big green "Accept All" button, and a 'reject all' option which looks greyed out and is smaller. When pressed it takes you to another dialog with a big green "Go Back" button and another, smaller, dimmer link for "Leave". The "Leave" link is the one that gets you back to the page, rejection preference intact.
These seem contrary to the spirit of the GDPR, I guess we'll see in time if they are deemed to contravene the law. The TC/Oath one definitely seems to be over the line.
--edit-- Missed one - A page allows you to set various controls and sliders to reject its data sharing, but then sits for several minutes "processing" your lack of consent. When it eventually completes you get a message saying that they don't have a version of the page they can show you without the data sharing cookies, so sorry, please check again in a few months.
I see this often too. Doesn't this directly contravene the text of the GDPR, much less the spirit of it?
Some of which are marked as "opt-out through partner", with no link or other details about how one would do that.
While the trackers are making it a faf to opt out (rather than as the legislation actually required: making it an opt-in situation) I'll just keep on with my side of the arms war that is ad-blocking. Their loss, not mine. I can't say I feel I've missed out on anything by sites failing/refusing to display with ads blocked, links that redirect through trackers not working at all, or just plain backing out of sites that are obnoxious (and in breach) with "by continuing or closing this banner..." and other such.