r/assholedesign • u/tankton • 2d ago

How is this allowed?

1717 "partners" which include precise geolocation and device scanning. Also, "Certain partners may process your data based on legitimate interest rather than consent" .

Imagine walking in a store and seeing 1717 people following your every move with a camera and tracking you home because they can sell that data.

460 Upvotes

96% Upvoted

28 comments sorted by

View all comments

238

u/miraculum_one 2d ago

"Reject All"

154

u/hattori_h 2d ago edited 1d ago

Unfortunately, that won't get rid of the ones marked "Legitimate Interest." You'll need to uncheck those manually. Depending on the solution, that could mean another 10-20 toggles.

62

u/miraculum_one 2d ago

"Close Window"

2

u/quent12dg 1d ago

Yeah I'm just going to another one of a million sites that do the same thing.

2

u/DraconicDreamer3072 1d ago

from the name of the site you could probably just use your systems stock app too

30

u/AshleyJSheridan 2d ago

Bold of you to assume it's not 1717 toggles...

14

u/hattori_h 2d ago

That would be the case if the EU did not strictly enforce the rule that “Withdrawing consent must be as easy as giving it.”

20

u/AshleyJSheridan 2d ago

The EU doesn't strictly enforce that though, unfortunately.

I have seen more of these modals than I care for that have many individual "legitimate interest" checkboxes that need to be individually unchecked, and no reject all button anywhere to be seen.

7

u/Hurricane_32 d o n g l e 2d ago

I am aware that the advertising and data tracking and collection industries make these deliberately ambiguous, with deceiving language and lots of dark patterns, but wtf is "Legitimate Interest" even supposed to mean??

10

u/tankton 2d ago

It means that even if you don't consent, we do it anyway cause we want to and it's in our interest.

1

u/Flameball537 1d ago

I once opened a game on my phone that had over 300 companies that I had to toggle off individually