I’m not trying to login often at RTL, usually only if I see something that triggers me really hard and I feel that I need to comment. So my last login has been a few weeks ago.

Today is one of those days again and on clicking login I get welcomed by a beautiful cookie screen

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I refused cookies in the past and now they want me to accept some for the login to work. So far not a problem. Essential cookies are covered by GDPR.

But then I look at what they want me to accept other than what seems essential for it to work….

* Personalised ads

* Personalised ads performance

* Personalised ads profile

* Regular ads

* Content performance metrics

* Marketing analytics

* Stuff to enhance their product in the future

* Some third party service provider they work with together

Why is any of this required for a simple login? This is very clearly not GDPR compliant because none of this should be required for a basic login/profile/commenting function.

Also this is absolutely not user-friendly in terms of usage… If they don’t want people to login then this will surely help them achieve that goal.

Usually I’d think this is an April’s fools joke if it weren’t putting such bad light on them.

7 comments

  6. I use a private window for rtl today – no previous cookies and delete the old ones as soon as I close it.

    Their cookie consent is clearly not GDPR compliant in that it requires far more data than is necessary to provide a simple comment functionality.

  7. From professional experience with our company’s legal team (i was heading gdpr compliance for our dept back in the day when it was implemented) such mistakes can be very costly for the company as they are based on the annual profit of the company or 20mil, whatever is higher. I’m sure rtl will have this fixed soon and if not then we will read a different type of news.

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