GDPR - UK and Europe

Hi, I'm in the UK and of course GDPR comes into play here. How do I get rid of the "manage settings" crap at the bottom left? Also I do not accept all these 3rd party integrations, and the comment "go deal with them individually yourself" actually break GDPR - CBS should look into this further. I'll cancel my sub if you insist i agree to multiple levels of bullshit cookies and tracking, which would be a shame as I've been a sub since day 1.

Living up to your name

@renegade1973: Those multiple levels of cookies and tracking were always there, it’s just that they have to warn you about it now.

@renegade1973: As far as I understand it if a website does not pass data to 3rd party advertisers then most places are claiming that the advertisers themselves are the data controllers for what they are doing. The advertising agents in that case are all in breach of GDPR as they are using assumed consent which is specifically invalid. I don't buy that argument as the websites are the ones making your browsing session available to advertisers and any data harvested was supposed to be under their control/protection but thats probably an argument for the courts, in the mean time you are better off reporting the advertisers to the ICO.

That said I do think CBSi's privacy policy falls pathetically and laughably short of GDPR requirements but this is not Giant Bomb's responsibility. This is a failure of a corporate/legal department in their parent corporation, which is way out of their control. https://www.cbsinteractive.com/legal/cbsi/privacy-policy/eu

Unfortunately CBSi hasn't included any contact details and have left it blank which is another violation and the only thing you can really do there is report them for this failure immediately to the ICO.

https://www.giantbomb.com/forums/bug-reporting-33/gdpr-and-youropean-site-visitors-1834984/

This has more relevant information.

CBSi is not hitting the marks that need to be hit, but if you want at least a good chunk of the trackers disabled http://optout.aboutads.info , http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/ & http://optout.networkadvertising.org seem to be opt-out aggregrators that take care of a bunch of them at once. So if you don't want to spend an hour on this, i would advice at least giving those 3 a whirl. Sadly, if you want to take care of them all, yeah.. you need to spend in excess of an hour on it :/

@onemanarmyy:

I was about the post a link to that thread too.

CBSi are in breach of GDPR, but they’re not the only one. Someone sent me a link to a picture on Imgur. That site is much worse!