I wish member nations were more proactive in fining people over this, because I'd then happily report every system like that.
On a related note, has anyone ever seen the corresponding consent popup that would let me opt back out of tracking cookies? I haven't. Which strikes me as weird, since consent was supposed to be as easily to rescind as it is to grant it.
>has anyone ever seen the corresponding consent popup that would let me opt back out of tracking cookies?
I have but only once, I don't remember where, it was probably an obscure site that didn't have whatever I was looking for. The pop-up was a big list of third party companies with checkboxes (Android style, slide left to uncheck) that had to be disabled individually. I don't think that was legal, consent was given by default unless I manually unchecked each box. There was of course no "uncheck all" button.
I haven't seen any either. The pop ups just say "cookies exist and we use them". There is no option to say no: the only way to dismiss the pop up is to click the accept button.
So not only do they not inform the user about the risks associated with this invasion of privacy which is a prerequisite for informed consent, they also take away the option to explicitly say no.
Even though opting out of tracking is the default, sites are probably placing cookies and fingerprinting the user's browser on their first visit anyway before they even see the consent pop up. So ignoring the pop up is probably not a real option either.
On a related note, has anyone ever seen the corresponding consent popup that would let me opt back out of tracking cookies? I haven't. Which strikes me as weird, since consent was supposed to be as easily to rescind as it is to grant it.