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Cookie banner may lack an equally prominent Reject option

Your cookie consent banner appears to make it easier to accept all cookies than to decline them - for example, by showing a prominent "Accept All" button but hiding the "Reject" or "Decline" option behind a settings menu or smaller link.

Why this matters

European data protection authorities, including the CNIL and the European Data Protection Board, have said that refusing non-essential cookies should be as easy as accepting them, and that consent obtained through manipulative design may not be valid under GDPR. Some regulators have issued fines over cookie banners. Whether this applies to you depends on where your visitors are, so check with a privacy adviser.

How to fix it

Update your cookie banner so that a "Reject All" or "Decline" button is displayed at the same level of prominence as "Accept All" - same size, same position, same visual weight. Your cookie platform provider can usually configure this in their settings.

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