The “Accept all” button is often the standard for cookie banners. An administrative court has ruled that the opposite offer is also necessary.
Lower Saxony’s data protection officer Denis Lehmkemper can report a legal victory in his long-standing battle against manipulatively designed cookie banners. The Hanover Administrative Court has confirmed his legal opinion in a judgment of March 19 that has only just been made public: Accordingly, website operators must offer a clearly visible “reject all” button on the first level of the corresponding banner for cookie consent requests if there is also the frequently found “accept all” option. Accordingly, cookie banners must not be specifically designed to encourage users to click on consent and must not prevent them from rejecting the controversial browser files.
Make it opt-in where you must purposely click somewhere. And just hide that away where they have their unsubscribe button.
It is opt-in, if you don’t choose any option on the banner is the same as choosing reject all. So, the best option is uBlock Origin with the “Cookie notices” filters enabled.
afaik the wording of the gdpr says that rejection must be as easy as acceptance
Not just “as easy” but “at least as easy”. The assumption should be that the user does not consent. And there have also been a few cases where the courts have - quite rightly - rules that “pay for privacy” offers aren’t good enough.
i thought the pay or consent stuff was DMA though?