Comment by Yizahi
2 months ago
Most of the sites use dark patterns in the banners, from not presenting decline option to hiding and renaming it to be unrecognizable. For example I make an effort in always picking Decline All option if available and the practice shows that I click on Allow All in about 20-30% of all banners, because it was impossible to avoid. So I safely assume that general population clicks Allow All even more.
From what I understood—but I think it's been added more recently—declining all optional cookies must be as easy as accepting all cookies.
Exactly, it is defined in the GDPR law that declining should be as easy and accessible as accepting. So all of those companies with dark patterns are breaking the law.