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How does that break GDPR.
They even allowed to charge money if you want no ad related cookies.
Most webpages are like pay 1€/month or accept the cookies. Totally legal and within law. Another instance of EU institutions being lobbied into supporting business above people.
It's not clear yet whether its within the law. There is multiple complaints regarding this being filed across the eu, and noyb is actively campaigning for this to be investigated. The argument is that gdpr demands the user being given a real choice. However, most sites pick the monthly fee at 4-5 €, which seems low but is actually very offputting and deliberately chosen such that most people accept cookies instead. A strong indicator for this is that a paid subscription nets the site about 3€ a month, while ad revenue per user per month is only about 0,25 €. So you would think they could offer a lot lower subscription fees. The fact that they won't means they really really want to track you and dark oattern you into accepting.
Your choice is: Pay or don't use it.
Tiktok isnt essential. Neither is Insta, FB, Telegram and so on.
Youtube can be up for debate (it became the biggest greatest private library).
I am totally here for taxing and fines being handed out like candy to the big social corpos but this aint it chief.
Except that the law says there has to be two options where you get to use it in addition to the default of just not using it.
So you're saying all ads before anything break GDPR? Either the easiest lawsuit in the world exists (all TV, YouTube etc) or you don't understand how GDPR works.