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Hell yes!
Now if only this type of ruling would happen everywhere.
Good luck enforcing it.
The title is misleading. The article only talks about LinkedIn.
It’s called legal precedence.
Next question: How to get the whole EU to take this legal position?
I could see it happen eventually. Would definitely be the best outcome for this whole consent banner madness.
Title in English, article in German… not great.
Yeah, true. But maybe the perfect time to try the new translation feature in Firefox? __
I don’t like or trust software translation. It’s often clunky, feels unnatural, and misses important nuance.
Then use an addon that uses translation services like Google or DeepL? Or hire an actual translator if you feel that’s also unacceptable.
Or learn the language, by FOSS means ofc. Make sure to check the licence for each word and verify the GPG key.
Kinda makes me want to move to Germany…
Well, let’s see how tue whole IT world weasels out of this one.
“oh we can’t possibly understand that field, as there is no agreed industry standard for how to treat it” - Get out, you know exactly what it means.
Bein forced to accept this would make their whole dark pattern cookie bullshit useless, sooooo
It’ll be interesting for sure! Specifically the big tech companies (looking at you Meta, Google, Microsoft)