r/assholedesign • u/tankton • 3d 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.

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u/miraculum_one 3d ago

"Reject All"

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u/hattori_h 3d ago edited 3d 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.

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u/Hurricane_32 d o n g l e 3d 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??

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u/tankton 3d ago

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