Largest GDPR fines surpass $1.3B

&quot;According to France’s privacy watchdog CNIL, Youtube users only had to click once to accept cookies, whereas refusing cookies took multiple clicks.<p>CNIL’s complaint stated that Google purposefully made the consent mechanisms more complex to push consumers to accept cookies––a clear violation of the GDPR’s requirement that companies provide equally simple ways to opt into or out of data collection.&quot;<p>So these dark patterns are officially violating GDPR. However there are still tons of websites implementing this.

The section on “ How to avoid GDPR fines in 2022” is naïve to a fault.<p>My personal opinion is that after recent rulings startups need to be very careful. GDPR compliance is practically a nightmare for any entity that even so much implements visitor counter with default http logging turned on.<p>It will be interesting to see how solutions and landscape evolves once GDPR fines come to smaller companies and startups.

I wish Europe would undo these privacy laws so that the web can go back to normal before they ruined it for the entire world.