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Did you notice the cookie service this site (and many others) use?

This service can have cookies switched off, though "legitimate interest" is left on.

"Legitimate interest" sounds innocent, yet it is not.

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-re...

If you scroll down the dilog box for this service you will find a link to "vendor preferences".

Click this, and you will find dozens of companies, with many having "legitimate interest" switched on. I find this deceptive (hiding this, essentially, and also using "legitimate interest".

If I really want to read what the site says I laboriously click no to legitimate interest, though usually I just close the page.



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