The “Accept all” button is often the standard for cookie banners. An administrative court has ruled that the opposite offer is also necessary.
Lower Saxony’s data protection officer Denis Lehmkemper can report a legal victory in his long-standing battle against manipulatively designed cookie banners. The Hanover Administrative Court has confirmed his legal opinion in a judgment of March 19 that has only just been made public: Accordingly, website operators must offer a clearly visible “reject all” button on the first level of the corresponding banner for cookie consent requests if there is also the frequently found “accept all” option. Accordingly, cookie banners must not be specifically designed to encourage users to click on consent and must not prevent them from rejecting the controversial browser files.
meanwhile meta stealing terrabytes of copyrighted literature to train their AI on, meanwhile “step in the right direction” video game megacorporations yoinking your product license you bought because its not profitible, meanwhile nintendo shutting down emulators without any base other than having money over passionated indie emulation devs, meanwhile google using google fonts on desktop on literally every website or apps on your phone to bypass this sht anyway.
way too little way too late, these people see these cute upcoming fines as very profitable and non harmful business expenses.