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It is a problem when you are targeting users from Europe, which you are doing almost certainly.

buboard 7y ago
We already have more than enough cookie popups and "heads up" emails whenever a company changes a comma in their ToS. GDPR is a bureaucratic madness and not something to be imitated. Want to educate users about privacy? do it with extensive educational campaigns, not by ruining everyone's experience on the web
- degski 7y ago
  What really infuriates me is this: "We respect your privacy, click here".
- hjanssen 7y ago
  But the general idea of GDPR is not only to educate. It also aims to give you tools at your disposal to control how and if your data is processed and stored. That is the most remarkable feat of GDPR. To complain that this is "bureaucratic madness" is not a problem with the regulation, it is a problem with your perception of personal data. If you didn't have tools before to enable users to control _their_ personal data, you are the problem and it is definitively good that you now have to invest into making sure you create those tools.
- Angostura 7y ago
  > do it with extensive educational campaigns And the point of GDPR is to give users the information to let consumers make informed choices and to make companies abide by those choices. There's no point in 'extensive education' if the consumer is still powerless to exercise that knowledge.
- deif 7y ago
  It's not GDPR's fault that websites have awful user experience. If they really cared about privacy then they wouldn't use popups that required multiple clicks to remove tracking cookies.
  - hvidgaard 7y ago
    If you have to untick boxes they're not in compliance with GDPR. If the button to not have tracking is gray and "accept all" is green, you're not in compliance. Many websites deliberately try to make it harder to opt-out, which is directly against the GDPR.
- wsy 7y ago
  GDPR wants to ensure that user privacy is protected. If you do that in your business, you don't need to show any cookie popups. A honest cookie popup would ask "Do you want to be tracked for advertising purposes? yes/no", and any sane person would klick "no". No education needed at all, if the advertisement industry would play honest. If the Web experience is ruined now, the Web advertisement industry needs to fix it.
- aliceryhl 7y ago
  Cookie popups are not caused by GDPR.

We already have more than enough cookie popups and "heads up" emails whenever a company changes a comma in their ToS. GDPR is a bureaucratic madness and not something to be imitated. Want to educate users about privacy? do it with extensive educational campaigns, not by ruining everyone's experience on the web

degski 7y ago
What really infuriates me is this: "We respect your privacy, click here".
hjanssen 7y ago
But the general idea of GDPR is not only to educate. It also aims to give you tools at your disposal to control how and if your data is processed and stored. That is the most remarkable feat of GDPR. To complain that this is "bureaucratic madness" is not a problem with the regulation, it is a problem with your perception of personal data. If you didn't have tools before to enable users to control _their_ personal data, you are the problem and it is definitively good that you now have to invest into making sure you create those tools.
Angostura 7y ago
> do it with extensive educational campaigns And the point of GDPR is to give users the information to let consumers make informed choices and to make companies abide by those choices. There's no point in 'extensive education' if the consumer is still powerless to exercise that knowledge.
deif 7y ago
It's not GDPR's fault that websites have awful user experience. If they really cared about privacy then they wouldn't use popups that required multiple clicks to remove tracking cookies.
- hvidgaard 7y ago
  If you have to untick boxes they're not in compliance with GDPR. If the button to not have tracking is gray and "accept all" is green, you're not in compliance. Many websites deliberately try to make it harder to opt-out, which is directly against the GDPR.
wsy 7y ago
GDPR wants to ensure that user privacy is protected. If you do that in your business, you don't need to show any cookie popups. A honest cookie popup would ask "Do you want to be tracked for advertising purposes? yes/no", and any sane person would klick "no". No education needed at all, if the advertisement industry would play honest. If the Web experience is ruined now, the Web advertisement industry needs to fix it.
aliceryhl 7y ago
Cookie popups are not caused by GDPR.