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#62 Debunking common cookie consent, GDPR and ePrivacy myths (with Rowenna Fielding @ Miss IG Geek)

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Do You Know What You're Doing With Your Cookies?

The abstraction layer that digital gives us has resulted in people kind of happily doing things they would be horrified to contemplate doing face-to-face. There's a perception now that cookies are bad, and if you ask a person, a regular person, and ask them about cookies,. they might say to you, I know, that's bad, I just decline everything. But the only high rate of cookie acceptance I've ever seen have been for sites which are not compliant with either e-privacy law or GDPR. They're using deceptive design to manufacture consent. People are more inclined to accept those, but only as long as they can trust the party behind them.

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