7 September 2018

youronlinechoices.com: an industry funded joke

With GDPR in operation, a lot of sites refer to youronlinechoices.com to manage your advertising cookies. On the homepage of the site you can select your country and language and then go to your advertising preferences. Sometimes you are directed to the preferences page directly.

The site lists (for me) 116 advertising sites, with for each company an on/off status. The site is a self-regulating, industry funded site.
Only... it does not work. For the 116 sites, only 14 show a response, the rest time out.

The site allows you to switch advertising on/off for individual companies. As it is not practical to click 116 buttons, there is a handy option to switch them all on or off.
Only... it does not work. Just like you could expect, the operation times out.

Most companies have an edaa certified label. You can click on the label to see the certification the advertising company received.
Only... it does not work. This is what you get:

Sorry, the page you are looking for either doesn't exist or something has gone wrong. Please go back to the home page and try again. Thank you.
At the bottom of the page there is a feedback mail adress. I signaled the problems to them.
Only... it does not work. After more then a month i did not even get a mail confirming the receipt of my message.

So much for industry self regulation.

I'll start listing companies using this bogus site to manage your privacy here:
- rabobank.be

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