1,741 "informed" consents with one click? GDPR complaint filed
The GDPR requires that consent is freely given, informed, specific and unambiguous. However, when visiting dict.cc, users are nudged into consenting to online tracking by a staggering 1,741 (!) “partners” with a single click. This makes it impossible for users to know exactly who has access to their data and how it is actually used.
- ▪The GDPR requires that consent is freely given, informed, specific and unambiguous.
- ▪However, when visiting dict.cc, users are nudged into consenting to online tracking by a staggering 1,741 (!) “partners” with a single click.
- ▪This makes it impossible for users to know exactly who has access to their data and how it is actually used.
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| Original publisher | noyb.eu |
| Canonical URL | https://noyb.eu/en/1741-informed-consents-one-click-gdpr-complaint-against-dictcc-filed |
| Publication time | Thu, 30 Jul 2026 05:33:30 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-30T06:18:40.857Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-30T06:18:41.510Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | GuBP9CK_zkhf · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Cookie Banners / 30 July 2026 Today, noyb has filed a complaint against the popular online dictionary dict.cc. The GDPR requires that consent is freely given, informed, specific and unambiguous. However, when visiting dict.cc, users are nudged into consenting to online tracking by a staggering 1,741 (!) “partners” with a single click. This makes it impossible for users to know exactly who has access to their data and how it is actually used. While dict.cc is an extreme example, requests to blindly waive your right to privacy for countless third parties is unfortunately a common issue with websites and apps relying on online advertising, even 8 years after the GDPR came into force. Complaint against dict.cc (EN - auto-translation)Complaint against dict.cc (DE - original)Background.
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