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> "So, my only option seems to be that I should not embed Google tag code at all if the user has not explicitly given consent."

The other option is to ignore the directive, which is what most websites will do.



As Ian Clarke (original designer of Freenet) put it:

"It is the responsibility of every citizen to ignore dumb laws."

And I would add that the whole world would crawl to a halt and descend into total chaos if everyone followed every law in the books. Too many laws are plain incoherent, inconsistent and impossible to follow.


Also, laws only 'matter' if they're actually enforced. There's no indication this will actually be enforced at all.




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