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I believe withdraw is after the fact, while what we need here is an option to reject the consent in the first place.



If the rule was applied literally and strictly, that would be even better.

Is consent given by agreeing to a huge banner that pops up anew every time you load the page?

Fine, you can do that, but then you have to pop up a huge "withdraw consent" banner every time a user that gave consent visits your site. Which you probably don't want, so you can't do the obnoxious opt-in banner either.

In practice, that would make any obnoxious way to ask for consent untenable, because you couldn't use it to annoy users into consenting (and staying in consenting state).




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