The worst offender I've encountered is imgur.com, where "click here to manage your privacy settings" brings you to a page with literally hundreds of advertisers.
About half are on "allowed" by default. If you want to disallow, you have to select each entry individually.
The other half only specify "requires opt-out", apparently imgur expects you to contact some third party to do so.
How on earth they expect to weasel around the law with this ham-fisted approach is beyond me.
>How on earth they expect to weasel around the law with this ham-fisted approach is beyond me.
They reckon, perhaps correctly, that almost all websites weasel around the law and only very few of them will ever be fined.
Privacy activists will go after the big fish first and there will be time for the small sites to correct course once it becomes clear what is and isn't permitted.
I would absolutely not expect good behaviour from them with respect to advertising, including but not limited to tracking.
That site was the final bail of hay that had me install ad blocking measures at the network level. Too often their advertising partners would attempt pop-ups, drive-by installs, gaining access to microphones, and other arse-hole-ery.
For myself I can just stop going there, but there are others in the household that wouldn't have done and I didn't want the job of cleaning their machines is something did get in. Of course my other option is add imgur.com itself to a malicious sites list so it'll be blocked completely at the network level...
Same goes with Tumblr and Yahoo for example, where everything is enabled by default and you have to go one (I'm not talking about 10-20, it's more like +300) by one to enable the tracking done by advertising/marketing companies.
One of the better thing is, though I don't want to advocate the behavior of auto opt-in at all, that most of these sites are at least using something like TRUSTe or Oath, where you only have to disable hundreds of marketing services once and are done with all the sites, which are using the same service for cookie consent.
It's against the law to make the options opt-out but these companies are still trying hard to don't obey by the law, it's really comical.
About half are on "allowed" by default. If you want to disallow, you have to select each entry individually.
The other half only specify "requires opt-out", apparently imgur expects you to contact some third party to do so.
How on earth they expect to weasel around the law with this ham-fisted approach is beyond me.