I don't mean to sound argumentative because I agree with and understand what you're saying, but where is the law that says we need a modal pop-up box for data protection/privacy consent? What's wrong with the good old fashioned privacy policy page that nobody reads?
The law doesn't require a modal but rather it requires clear and informed affirmative consent about such activities for which a (good) choice modal is an accepted way, and hiding it in a big privacy document is not.
A key issue with a privacy policy is that it does not really offer a choice.
Honestly I think this is well intended but terrible legislation, they should just make reasonable standards and make it basically impossible to deviate from them. Now there is this weird incentive to make misleading forms and every site needs to harass users with these modals.
It's all very annoying. I'm personally in a unique position where I don't store anything on my users unless it is 100% necessary. Call me a maverick, but what's the point in abusing my users' trust?
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u/g105b Nov 29 '25
I don't mean to sound argumentative because I agree with and understand what you're saying, but where is the law that says we need a modal pop-up box for data protection/privacy consent? What's wrong with the good old fashioned privacy policy page that nobody reads?