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In Britain it's illegal for a website to store a cookie without informing you, so I have a feeling someone may have already tried this.
by Sean1708 10y ago
In Britain it's illegal for a website to store a cookie without informing you, so I have a feeling someone may have already tried this.
- AstralStorm 10y agoLikewise in EU.
- Silhouette 10y agoNo, it isn't. That's not what the infamous "cookie law" says, nor how it's been interpreted in practice by official regulators across the EU.
- Sean1708 10y agoWhat does it actually say?
- Silhouette 10y agoThe details are probably too complicated for an HN comment, but one point that sometimes gets missed is that you normally don't have the same disclosure/consent obligations for cookies that are essential to the normal operation of the site like login tokens or tracking what's in a shopping basket.