Cookie walls and pay-or-consent: paying instead of agreeing
When a cookie wall is lawful, what the EDPB said about pay-or-consent in 2024, and which third option is demanded.
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Privacy, explained
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How consent, cookies and data protection fit together — in plain language, with diagrams that carry the argument.
Why "Reject" belongs on the first layer
Why supervisory authorities across Europe require refusing to be as easy as agreeing – and how to implement it.
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The six tricks in a consent banner
Hidden refusal, confirmshaming, false urgency: the common dark patterns in consent banners and why they invalidate consent.
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The five stores inside a browser
Cookies, local storage, session storage, IndexedDB and cache: what sets the stores apart and why all of them can require consent.
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Recognition without cookies
Fingerprinting, pixels, CNAME cloaking and server-side tagging: the methods beyond cookies and how the law treats them.
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Consent Mode v2, explained without the marketing
What Google Consent Mode v2 transmits, how basic and advanced differ, and why the signals do not replace consent.
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Script blocking: why "beforehand" is the whole point
How script blocking works, which three methods exist, and why consent after loading has no effect.
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What a consent banner technically does
From page load to deferred scripts: how a consent banner works, why the stub has to come first, and how to spot solutions that only pretend.
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The contract almost every website needs
What a data processing agreement has to contain, when it is needed, and what role sub-processors play.
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