Simple Opt Out – Links to opt out of data sharing by companies

&quot;opt-out of data sharing by snail mailing us more information about yourself&quot;<p>thats gold. EU sic &#x27;em!

For citizens of the EU, it would be useful to also include the contact address for requesting what data they already have on you. If I were going to spend effort on this, I&#x27;d rather report them to my local watchdog than play along with their game.

I just looked at a few of these for the services I use. So far I wasn’t able to actually opt out of anything. One service resulted in an error, the rest are just links to their policies where I couldn’t find any actionable links to do anything just them explaining that they’ll keep sharing my data. One explained to me how to unsubscribe from their mailing list with a screenful of text. So “Simple” is not what I would use for these links.

Opt-out is the wrong approach. Opt-in is the correct approach.<p>Why is that so difficult to understand for law makers?

Twitter allows you to disable personalisation...without being signed in. Yep. I&#x27;m sure that tickbox definitely totally does something behind the scenes. We promise.<p>&gt;Paypal Cannot opt out<p>And this is EU law compliant how please?

Ignoring the poor usability of these grey opt-out workflow patterns, how can we ensure the opt-out persists as ToS are updated? We need an OSS community-maintained scraper that can poll for cloud status.

Opt-out by default is illegal when interacting with EU-based customers under the GDPR, opt-in by default is required by law.

There&#x27;s no reason I shouldn&#x27;t be able to go to the cookie policy services like OneTrust themselves and opt out of every one of their customers forever.

Could we git to some kind of standard like &#x2F;.well-known&#x2F;opt-out or something? Is there any existing guidance?