The Austrian online privacy NGO Noyb announced on Tuesday August 9 the filing of 226 new complaints against websites in Europe with rules on cookies deemed “
misleading
”, one year after a similar action.
"
Today, Noyb filed 226 complaints with 18 authorities against websites that use popular cookie banner software
'OneTrust'
with misleading settings
," the organization said in a statement.
“
Being online has become a frustrating experience
” in Europe, with “
annoying barriers designed to make it extremely difficult to reject cookies everywhere on the Net
”, added the NGO.
400 complaints already filed
It demands that the "
yes/no
" option to cookies - computer tracers that allow targeted advertising - be clearly offered to Internet users, as provided for in a European regulation that came into force in 2018. In August 2021, Noyb had already filed more 400 complaints and decisions have not yet been made, although "
many sites have adapted their settings by adding dismiss buttons
" since then, she said.
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"
After a year, we come to hopeless cases that do not react to any solicitation
," lamented Max Schrems, the director of the NGO.
“
They must now be studied by the competent authorities
”.
Statistics published in 2021 show that 3% of users accept cookies, but that more than 90% of them are pushed to do so because they cannot easily reject them.