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The cookie notice policy led to the worst imaginable actual outcome: A state in which you either accept cookies (incl. third party) by default or you will be ha
by fwn 9y ago
The cookie notice policy led to the worst imaginable actual outcome: A state in which you either accept cookies (incl. third party) by default or you will be haunted by numbing "reminders" that cookies exist. Usually taking large parts of your small screen estate.
Prior to that you could just disable them if you liked.
One can say that policy makers had good intentions - certainly. However, I can not imagine a valid evaluation that wouldn't conclude this policy as failure.
- icebraining 9y agoI don't disagree that the policy was a failure, I just disagree with your specific point made in the previous post.
- fwn 9y agoHmm. I'm not sure I can follow. The browser not being able to distinguish between essential and non-essential cookies does not change the fact that cookies are and were entirely voluntary.
- icebraining 9y agoRight, but there's no reason to think the legislators didn't know that, because their goal was not to prevent the use of all cookies.
- pista 9y agoThey thought that sites would stop using tracking cookies. But most sites use google analytics.