How I already hate those annoying cookie policy pop-ups on almost every website I visit!
The other day in a webshop I first checked the cookie thing upfront and then eight(!) checkboxes at checkout that I have read and consent their 1.General Terms 2.Return policy 3.Lithium battery handling rules 4.Being of 18+ age 5.Packaging material dispose rules 6.Product safety info 7.Data handling rules (and it was just the old one, not yet GDPR) and 8.Newsletter/membership agreement
I already began looking for a browser plug-in that would check every bullshit for me automatically. I will never read those 700-pages legal blurb anyway, but the webshop would not allow me not checking all those. Does this really make sense?
Now cometh this GDPR thing to the play with its additional 7-10 checkboxes, I can imagine another 5-10 years of 'smart' legislation in this direction, and we will be required to read, checkbox, fill-out and sign 37 popping up consent windows before we can lookup the weather or the simplest things on any website. Add another 20 years of legislative progress to this, and will there be 587 questions and checkboxes, we would need 2 hours of mouse-clicking before entering any website... Ridiculous.
Why I am not required to sign anything before I enter a physical shop and buy something with my credit card. My card data is the most personal info I can imagine, my face, my each step is recorded on their video surveillance, this is even more personal: they can even see if my pants-zipper has slipped open. For a physical shop a simple warning is enough on their entrance, just by entering and buying I am giving my consent to all they need. As a webshop operator I demand equal rights, so why is there no lawyer in each physical shop entrance with an agreement each visitor must agree and sign?
Sorry for the offtopic ranting here. I am just asking you, developers and shop operators to keep the annoying checkboxes as low count and low profile as it is minimally necessary by the law.
Where is it written in these rules that I cannot give consent with checking ONE SINGLE CHECKBOX for all the above 9 things with I began my comment with and also to the GDPR rule now? I would suggest to put it all into the already present cookie policy popup to make websites not more annoying than they are already now.
There is a clear need for a 'ONE-CLICK-CONSENT' or even better 'CONSENT-BY-ENTERING' political party to change these rules and end this legal nightmare.
I understand we can't change this silly law, but please do not overobey it. Today on the first day of GDPR in effect I see already websites looking* much more GDPR-compliant than required by asking twelve additional GDPR questions, checkboxes, etc. rendering the whole thing internet is about (free, unrestricted, quick browsing for any info) into an annoying experience.
*by 'looking' I mean much of the GDPR requirements are infeasible in practice today