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"websites and applications actively transmitting customer data to Google and Facebook."

Any website doing this for EU users without their consent is going to run into GDPR issues very quickly indeed.

I'm sure that, like most other consent prompts, it will be opt-out with lots of sketchy dark patterns (like artificial waits) to ensure you don't opt out.

That's actually still in breach of the regulation. However you are right to have concerns as the GDPR is not being enforced seriously.

As mentioned above by @marketingtech, the websites assume the responsibility of managing user consent and therefore are GDPR compliant.

This is why browsing the internet feels like filing for a mortgage now. But it's compliant.

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