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croes 4 hours ago

Don’t track your site visitors.

No tracking, no banner.

Or respect the now deprecated DNT flag, no banner necessary.

Now we get DNT 2.0 and the website owner will once again maliciously comply.

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nonethewiser 4 hours ago | parent [-]

OK sounds great.

But some companies prefer to have trackers. They are required by GDPR to explain each cookie and offer a control for permissions. They probably had trackers before GDPR too. So how is that malicious compliance? They are just operating how they did before except now they are observing GDPR.

It sounds like maybe you just want them to ban trackers. Or for people to care more about trackers and stop using websites with trackers (thereby driving down trackers) Great. Those are all great. But none of them happened and none of that is dictated by GDPR.

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Neikius 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You can have first party trackers. That is not so hard. Every site onto itself is a first party tracker, but if your developers can't do it there are opensource solutions available to host.

	▲	nonethewiser 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Again, great. Didn't happen and isn't required by GDPR though.

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croes 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Malicious compliance are those dark patterns where it takes on click to accept all but multiple clicks to reject all.

I remember the early day cookie banners of Tumbler accept all or deselect 200 tracking cookies by clicking each checkbox.