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I won't vote either way, but I will say that regardless of what GDPR may mean, "you need a cookie warning" will be accepted web dev mantra for years, and the th
by technion 8y ago
I won't vote either way, but I will say that regardless of what GDPR may mean, "you need a cookie warning" will be accepted web dev mantra for years, and the things they build in that time will be around longer still.
- kuschku 8y agoThe "you need a cookie warning" is yhe reason why the GDPR is actually so strict, though. The goal was to let users opt out of tracking in the hope that the industry would self-regulate. Now that it hasn't, GDPR is coming down hard. Web devs really manage to fuck everything up.
- opinionator1 8y agoNone of what you said is true. It's impossible to run a website that does anything significant (such as show ads, use UX to convert visitors, or even log in) without cookies. The regulators don't even understand this, and nowhere has anyone gone on record saying this ignorant and misguided law was secretly intended to push an industry to "self-regulate" (regulate what, one wonders?) GDPR being a response to anything having to do with cookies is only your interpretation, and a fairly absurd one at that. Lastly, no one said you have to like web devs, but HN requires you to be civil, so I suggest you save the hatorade for Reddit.
- detaro 8y agoYou mentioning "log in" in this context makes it pretty clear you're also fairly ignorant about the specific topic. Log ins, shopping baskets, ... do not require a cookie notice.
- opinionator1 8y agoNot only is what you're saying irrelevant to my point, you're wrong. "Log ins, shopping baskets" do require a notice if they are persistent, which almost all of them are. Looks like you're the ignorant one here.