Limburg.net rant: you cannot contact them unless you consented to all cookies (including marketing ones). [Left: required cookies only] [Right: consent to all cookies]

by zeemeerman2

6 comments

  2. “Het plaatsen van een “cookiewall” – wat een praktijk is om de toegang tot een website of mobiele applicatie te blokkeren voor diegenen die niet akkoord gaan met de installatie van “niet strikt noodzakelijke” cookies – is niet in overeenstemming met de AVG. Deze praktijk verhindert namelijk dat u een vrije toestemming kan geven, aangezien u verplicht bent toestemming te geven voor de installatie en/of het lezen van cookies om toegang te krijgen tot de website of mobiele applicatie.”

    -https://www.gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit.be/

  3. Seems like the issue is on your side, not general.

    I refused all cookies, the button is still available for me.

  4. That might just be a misconfiguration or bug on their end and not on purpose. I see it’s a Drupal, there is a module that can block Javascript based on accepted cookies or something if I recall (for example don’t show embedded tweets unless those cookies were accepted because embedding tweets requires a bunch of cookies from Twitter) so it is *possible* it is on purpose but it feels more likely they attached that script to the wrong category or that script is also doing a bunch of marketing stuff and they forgot it is also used for these types of forms.

    I also found this page (https://limburg.net/tijdelijke-testpagina-nieuw-meldingen-form) when just searching for the word “melding”, didn’t even see the page you’re on at all so Hanlon’s razor comes to mind: “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”

  5. I contacted them yesterday, after rejecting all non essential cookies…

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