Thread by @WolfieChristl

So, Engadget, which is part of Oath (=Yahoo/AOL/Verizon) asks site visitors for 'permission' to transmit data on them to 436 (!) other firms, including major data brokers.

"Select 'OK' to continue using our products, otherwise, you will not be able to access our sites and apps"

I created a quick word cloud, the list of third-party companies they want transmit data to includes Acxiom, Oracle, GroupM/WPP, DoubleClick/Google, Amazon, eBay, Microsoft, Telefonica, Comcast, Sociomantic/Tesco, Krux/Salesforce, Criteo, Lotame, Quantcast, Nielsen, and many more.

Yes, instead of 'OK' you can click on:

1) 'Manage options'
2) 'Manage'
3) 'Show'
4) 'Deselect all'
5) 'Other Partners'
6) 'Deselect all'
7) 'Done'
8) 'OK'

Incredibly confusing and intentionally misleading. Why should anyone go through this when it says 'click OK or no access'?

And the best thing is, after going through this and deselecting everything:

...Engadget is still connecting to 50+ third-party domains, including AddThis/Oracle, DoubleClick/Google, AppNexus, Scorecardresearch, Pubmatic, Taboola, Turn and many others, haha!

Even better, hahaha, after reloading the article Engadget REDIRECTED me to some crappy ad fraud site, probably some kind of malware coming from 1 of these third party companies.

Hilarious. This is pure chaos & cannot be GDPR compliant at all. But yeah, still a few hours to go 😂

Unfortunately, we'll see lots of this stuff in the next weeks.

- Good: things are getting more transparent + there will be some legal action
- Bad: it's super annoying

It's a power struggle, a poker game …will industry lobbyists succeed with selling a TINA+"bad law" narrative?

This is what it looks like today.