I get a wall of text with cookie approval/rejection buttons, but on mobile I can't even scroll to the top of the text to read it all. What a failure.
The real [Deutsche] "Gesellschaft für Datenschutz" seems to be: https://www.gdd.de
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Given this is one of the organisations who help give governments draft laws by advising them, and whose purpose is to help its members obey those laws, that would be rather self-defeating.
And given the web design apparent on the following page, I think this is much more easily explained as "bad web design": https://dg-datenschutz.de/imprint/
If given an active choice nobody* would ever go "yes I want you to sell my data to your 1,414 carefully selected partners". Maybe they want personalisation when they sign up for an account, but you ask them that at signup time, not the first time they land on your page.
* where nobody < 1%
"Do not sell or share my personal information (CCPA/CPRA)."
Most other websites try to hide this fundamental choice from you behind dialogs and endless options. (And of course outside the EU you don't even get to control this, your data will always be collected and sold.)
And as someone who was successful in making such claim, it was a relatively easy process.
Unfortunately, the cookie dialog was missed by "the translation tool" and both accept and reject kinda look the same to me.
I have uBlock Origin (mind, with the default settings). I also have the Consent-O-Matic autofill extension that's supposed to reject cookies automatically for me.
Neither of them seems to catch cookie dialogs on some german sites. Not that I want uBlock to hide the cookie dialogs, I want them explicitly rejected by the other extension.
Consent-O-Matic does automatically reject most crap on english and romanian sites so I guess they haven't added support for whatever cookie dialog zeit.de uses (and that's popular on german sites?).
> both accept and reject kinda look the same to me
I bet that's very intentional too, and there are other ways to phrase it in German so the two options don't look similar.
- Settings / Einstellungen
- Accept / Akzeptierten
- Reject All / Alle Ablehnen
The English translation is on the buttons in the non-translated page and those translations are fine. There's even a reject all button, which is fine too. The only not so nice thing is that the "Accept" button is coloured green.
Again, I don't want to defend those banners.
"Allen zustimmen" "Ausgewahlten zustimmen"
Yep I could look it up. But using the same verb looks like an intentional dark pattern to me. And I wasn't interested enough in the article to jump through the hoops.
(Our conversation did make me look it up and neither is 'reject all', they're 'accept all' and 'accept selection').