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This law hasn't been enforced here but it's not like it has never been enforced; major websites like Google, Facebook and others were forced to add "reject all": https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/21/23035289/google-reject-al...


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jampekka10/11/2024

It took EU enforcement eight years to enforce obvious violations of the law for a few companies. The illegal nags are still rampant.

And e.g. Meta (and many newspapers) already has a new obviously illegal tracking scheme with the "pay to not track".

The intended effect of GDPR would have been easily gotten with legally binding do-not-track and similar automated means. Very few people want to be tracked, but most of them are against their true consent.