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Kill the Cookie Banner!

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Tired of misleading cookie banners? The EU Commission has finally proposed a solution: set your privacy preferences in the browser once, and never see another banner. Unfortunately, the tracking industry is pushing back – and so far, they’ve been successful. We need YOUR help to #KillTheCookieBanner! You may think that EU privacy law requires cookie banners. But the law is clear: online tracking is prohibited by default. Therefore, the tracking industry needs you to waive your rights. That’s why they invented cookie banners, which often are deliberately misleading as well as annoying. This results in up to 90% of people saying “YES” – even though only around 3% actually want to be tracked online. This system is broken by design. In Autumn 2025, as part of a bigger legal reform*, the EU Commission finally proposed a solution to the cookie banner problem: automated signals that would communicate your privacy preferences between your device and websites or apps. You could then choose whet

Stop the tracking circus. Tired of misleading cookie banners? The EU Commission has finally proposed a solution: set your privacy preferences in the browser once, and never see another banner. Unfortunately, the tracking industry is pushing back – and so far, they’ve been successful. We need YOUR help to #KillTheCookieBanner! Cookie banners are made to trick you into waiving your rights You may think that EU privacy law requires cookie banners. But the law is clear: online tracking is prohibited by default. Therefore, the tracking industry needs you to waive your rights. That’s why they…

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