1,741 “informed” consents with one click?! GDPR complaint against dict.cc filed
Privacy advocacy group noyb has filed a GDPR complaint against the online dictionary dict.cc, alleging that the site's cookie consent mechanism bundles agreement with 1,741 third-party partners into a single click, making genuine informed consent effectively impossible.
Why this matters: One click, 1,741 data recipients. That is not consent. It is a signature on a blank check. GDPR requires consent to be specific and informed, which means users need to actually know who gets their data and why. A single button cannot cover that. Dict.cc is an extreme case, but the underlying trick is everywhere. Most cookie banners are designed to make agreeing easy and understanding hard. That is the whole point. If companies had to get real consent, most of these data-sharing arrangements would collapse overnight.
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