Two are better than one?! Profil.at strikes back with forced banner, when users make the "wrong" choice.

Cookie Banners Two are better than one?! Profil.at strikes back with forced banner, when users make the "wrong" choice. Today, noyb.eu filed a GDPR complaint against the Austrian news magazine Profil. If you want to visit profil.at, you can reject all cookies in the first step. If one does so, however, a second banner pops up where one must agree to Google and other tracking cookies. Such forced consent is clearly prohibited under the GDPR. Complaint with Austrian Data Protection Authority (PDF) Forced consent in two acts. Anyone who wants to read an article on profil.at and reject cookies, faces an impossible task: at first glance, profil.at obtains consent for tracking cookies. However, if you reject these, you are forced to agree to cookies from Google and ÖWA (Austrian Web Analysis) in a second step, because "only in this way can the platform be operated in a meaningful way". Once agreed to, this consent can also not be revoked. „Profil.at has a particularly shameless system where