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Privacy group targets website 'cookie terror'

A privacy group has lodged hundreds of complaints against what it calls “cookie banner terror” online.

Noyb, headed by well-known Austrian privacy advocate Max Schrems, is targeting companies which it says deliberately make it hard to opt-out of tracking cookies.

“By law, users must be given a clear yes/no option,” the group said.

Marketing groups have blamed the EU’s strict privacy rules for creating the problem.

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