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The amount of stupidity surrounding this legislation is appalling. The obvious solution could have been: - Use or make something similar of the ill fated Do No

The amount of stupidity surrounding this legislation is appalling. The obvious solution could have been: - Use or make something similar of the ill fated Do Not Track header for anonymous users. The user decides on his stance regarding privacy. His machine makes it known to the server, the server acts according to the users wishes. No further user interaction required. - Decide what to do if the user authenticates. Use the method above or offer a more granular way to control privacy settings to be configured by the user in his account settings. Though that would basically kill analytics. The reasonable default for such a Header is no tracking. The controversy around the existing DNT header and the attempts of at least Microsoft to set it to "no track" on default, is "enlightening". https://www.fastcompany.com/90308068/how-the-tragic-death-of-do-not-track-ruined-the-web-for-everyone https://www.fastcompany.com/90308068/how-the-tragic-death-of... I the meantime I installed the Firefox Add-on "I don't care about cookies" which does a reasonably good job to remove these annoyances.

hrktb 7y ago
The legislation proposed the most obvious solution: - just don’t collect anything, don’t even require cookies From there every significant actors of the industry, short of firefox and Apple (perhaps Microsoft ?) just went on looking for the other ways, workarounds, anything to keep their business as close as it is now. That going as far as completely cutting off whole swaths of users just to not bend to the rules. Blame the players cheating and conspiring to bend the game and ignore or weaken any attempt to limit their reach.
icebraining 7y ago
I agree the cookie law was a failure. The EU does too, so it's being revised. The GDPR is a different matter altogether, it doesn't specify technical solutions at all, and covers all personal data, not just tracking.

hrktb 7y ago

The legislation proposed the most obvious solution: - just don’t collect anything, don’t even require cookies From there every significant actors of the industry, short of firefox and Apple (perhaps Microsoft ?) just went on looking for the other ways, workarounds, anything to keep their business as close as it is now. That going as far as completely cutting off whole swaths of users just to not bend to the rules. Blame the players cheating and conspiring to bend the game and ignore or weaken any attempt to limit their reach.

icebraining 7y ago

I agree the cookie law was a failure. The EU does too, so it's being revised. The GDPR is a different matter altogether, it doesn't specify technical solutions at all, and covers all personal data, not just tracking.