The worst cookie pop-ups come from a Florida company, that is hell-bent on punishing the whole internet for not allowing them to invade privacy.
They not only do some shoddy attempt of malicious compliance, they don't even do it actually right, for example EU law says if you have an accept all button, you must have a reject all button, but they don't do that.
Also the law doesn't give an exception for "legitimate interest", yet when you open their menu to disable manually everything (that by the law, should be disabled by default, except cookies essential to keep the site working), they have a bunch of random tracking cookies enabled because it is "legitimate interest". I think the only reason they weren't sued out of existence yet, is because it is a US company, thus they don't have to actually follow EU laws or something. (or they act like that, at least, I am not a lawyer).
Is there a requirement in the EU laws that the popups need to be in a specific language? I've seen plenty of websites in the EU that uses a non-english language in the popup and there is no option to switch to another language to understand what you are agreeing to.
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The worst cookie pop-ups come from a Florida company, that is hell-bent on punishing the whole internet for not allowing them to invade privacy.
They not only do some shoddy attempt of malicious compliance, they don't even do it actually right, for example EU law says if you have an accept all button, you must have a reject all button, but they don't do that.
Also the law doesn't give an exception for "legitimate interest", yet when you open their menu to disable manually everything (that by the law, should be disabled by default, except cookies essential to keep the site working), they have a bunch of random tracking cookies enabled because it is "legitimate interest". I think the only reason they weren't sued out of existence yet, is because it is a US company, thus they don't have to actually follow EU laws or something. (or they act like that, at least, I am not a lawyer).
EDIT: linkedin link to the offending company: https://www.linkedin.com/company/getadmiral/
Is there a requirement in the EU laws that the popups need to be in a specific language? I've seen plenty of websites in the EU that uses a non-english language in the popup and there is no option to switch to another language to understand what you are agreeing to.