Campaigners lodge hundreds of complaints against sites they claim break cookie laws.
A privacy group has lodged hundreds of complaints against what it calls "cookie banner terror" online.
After the EU's General Data Protection Regulation was implemented in 2018, websites began to display very prominent pop-up forms, andBut many websites force users to revoke consent for dozens of marketing partners individually - a process that can take several minutes. Others highlight the "accept all" in a green colour or make it more prominent.
But it says that if firms do not comply within a month, it will file full formal complaints with enforcement authorities. "Frustrating people into clicking 'okay' is a clear violation of the GDPR's principles," he said, accusing firms of trying "to make privacy a hassle for users.""They often deliberately make the designs of privacy settings a nightmare, but at the same time blame the GDPR for it.
Data protection and privacy expert Pat Walshe said that the way the advertising industry had approached the rules had "led to confusion at best".
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