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## HOWTO decline legitimate interest.md

      
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                Decline all legitimate interests at once
              
          
    From a comment on reddit to the question whether or not to allow Legitimate Interest:

That's non-sense. You can't ask for consent for another legal reason, and Legitimate Interest is a legal reason.
If you see "Legitimate Interest", turn it off : that means they HAD to require consent, and know they have no justification to even show.
THEY consider that making money is the legitimate interest of a business, while the GDPR doesn't consider that a legal legitimate interest to violate privacy. (I'm not totally sure if it's legal to change the meaning of a legal term to match a common usage, but I'm not a lawyer.)

Theoretically not giving consent should require the same effort as giving consent, but unchecking all Legitimate Interest checkboxes is usually a daunting task. This can easily be automated by creating a bookmark: choose a name to your liking and let it point to `javascript:Array.from(documen

  
## remove_temp_files.sh
#!/bin/bash

find . -name '*~' -print0 2> /dev/null | xargs -0 rm

## campsites.sql
-- replace lon, lat with the coordinate you want to search and dist with the distance in metres
select name, way, tags from planet_osm_point where ST_DWithin(way, ST_Transform(ST_SetSRID(ST_Point(lon, lat), 4326), 3857), dist) and tourism = 'camp_site';

## HOWTO cygwin powershell.txt
Given cygwin is installed in C:\cygwin64, create a shortcut as follows:
- target: %SystemRoot%\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -Command "C:\cygwin64\bin\bash --login"
- start in: %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%
	#!/bin/bash

	find . -name '*~' -print0 2> /dev/null \| xargs -0 rm
	-- replace lon, lat with the coordinate you want to search and dist with the distance in metres
	select name, way, tags from planet_osm_point where ST_DWithin(way, ST_Transform(ST_SetSRID(ST_Point(lon, lat), 4326), 3857), dist) and tourism = 'camp_site';
	Given cygwin is installed in C:\cygwin64, create a shortcut as follows:
	- target: %SystemRoot%\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -Command "C:\cygwin64\bin\bash --login"
	- start in: %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%