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I wonder if the parent sites are even aware of this. If you can get (well, you can) the autofilled email+password, might as well automatically log the user in.
by ecesena 9y ago
I wonder if the parent sites are even aware of this.
If you can get (well, you can) the autofilled email+password, might as well automatically log the user in.
Edit: it's also interesting to see so many EU sites, where in theory you should show a disclaimer for cookies, but apparently it's ok to extract email addresses.
- sjmulder 9y agoThey aren't allowed to, of course, and the banner is treated like a formality in an almost cargo cult like fashion.
- chatmasta 9y agoThe “we use cookies!” banner is ridiculous. I always click “no thanks” whenever it’s an option, but obviously it changes nothing. That banner is a great example of useless regulation that accomplishes nothing yet wastes the time of users and developers.
- toyg 9y agoIt started as a legitimate complaint about user tracking but it was eventually lobbied into nothingness. Meaningful legislation would have hit the industry hard, at a time when IT/web was one of the few sectors holding on in the Great Crisis, so the EuroParliament got cold feet. They seem to have done a better job with the GDPR, which really should have come before the cookie stuff anyway; there is a chance the matter will be reviewed once the GDPR is fully implemented.