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Off topic, but doesn't GDPR stipulate[0] that cookie consent dialogs cannot have non-essential options that are by default opted in? This page seems to have those.

> The use of pre-ticked opt-in boxes is invalid underthe GDPR. Silence orinactivity on the part of the data subject, as well as merely proceeding with a service cannot beregarded as an active indication of choice.

[0] https://edpb.europa.eu/sites/default/files/files/file1/edpb_...

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Huh, I didn't know that, I'd wondered why so many sites defaulted them all to unchecked.

Fastly's one seems a pretty dark-patterned in general, throwing up a primary-styled "allow all" button (and simultaneously pushing the switches out of view) if you disable one of the options.

I now pre-judge a site based on its styling of checked/un-check-all functionality. Things that try hard to make me check all (or hard to uncheck stuff) immediately seem skeezy.

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