So many sites do:
“Here are cookie, advertising, tracking policies. Here is an OK button.”
After not clicking the ok button but attempting to continue:
“You must agree to our tracking policy”
That is explicitly not allowed/illegal under GDPR.
American companies including the Washington Post really have a damn hard time wrapping their head around that an agreement means you can decline to agree to it, and GDRP says refusing to be tracked is not grounds for a site to refuse service.
@szbalint @torgo Yeah, seen so much of this. My experience of using the web has gotten markedly worse since GDPR, because the consent panels are much more intrusive and blocking, with no way to refuse. I hope this will start to change when the court cases start happening... In the meantime, I'll be using the browser dev tools and hiding consent panel elements more often ;)