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Comment by feketegy | Hacker News Reader

How GDPR is implemented is a total shitshow. It clearly says that it's an OPT-IN, not opt-out and one has to uncheck everything one by one.

We're creating a fucking dystopia just to click on more ads.

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I used to see only that, but lately I've been seeing cases where once you choose the "manage cookies" option, all the nonessential cookies are opted out by default.

I can't trust that, a lot of websites do that but also keep all of the "Legitimate Interest" boxes ticked by default, I need to check every single pop-up to see if that's the case or not.

I hate these dark patterns and in spite I do lose my time to uncheck everything I can, if I can't untick everything in less than 20 seconds I simply close the website, no matter what.

You could also enable the annoyances filter lists if you're using ublock origin. They remove the prompt altogether, but you've not given permission to anything.

I've seen that too, but a dark pattern here is pretending this is the whole truth and then hide a few hundred under a less visible "legitimate interest" tab.

Personally I use the Lockdown app which seems to block a lot, but suggestions about better alternatives are welcome.

That's how it's been handled for nearly 100% of the sites I went to for the last two years (that actually do contain ads, or use tracking for pointless internal analytics, that is). Or a variation thereof similarly letting you switch off most tracking using no more than two clicks.

I make it a point to click "reject all" if the initial dialog only allows accepting some implicit default preferences.

Noyb.eu is working to fix this: https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-aims-end-cookie-banner-terror-and-is...

The GDPR itself is sane. Its enforcement is severely lacking though.

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