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    "Accept all" and the "Deny all" must be both
    be the same level of "easy-ness"

I think this is not clear until it has been tested in court.

Many websites now have two offers: Free with 3rd part ads and paid.

Surely paying is much less easy than clicking "Ok, show me the content with 3rd party ads".

It will be very interesting, how courts see this.

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Ads aren't the problem, tracking is. You can deliver ads without this complete user tracking.

In Germany, the media sites that offered "either tracking/advertising" on vs "paid content approach" were already in court with that practice and won.

The current situation is, that the courts decided, that the business model (advertising and by that tracking the sh*t out of people) is valid if they offer an alternative were people pay them for access to the content.

    were already in court

Really? That surprises me. I did not hear about this.

Do you have a link to such a case?

I know I read that in one of the data privacy newsletters I receive but am sadly currently not able to find it.

Sorry.

I hope that's true, because disallowing the tracking based business model completely would be a horrendous thing causing making it harder for people who aren't rich to be informed.

I think it's pretty clear, GDPR literally says 'It shall be as easy to withdraw as to give consent'.

The really problem is enforcement has been lacking, this is what NOYB are co. are working to fix.

As far as I understand it, "withdraw" here is the withdraw of the consent at a later time. Consent that was previously given.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-7-gdpr/

I don't think it means that when asked for consent, the user must have an easy way to deny that consent. As the user can always decide to simply not use the website.

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