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Fundamentally, the solution to cookie warning spam is simple: Stop letting these companies disclaim their way out of unethical business practices. Start making
by ocdtrekkie 7y ago
Fundamentally, the solution to cookie warning spam is simple: Stop letting these companies disclaim their way out of unethical business practices. Start making those business practices illegal and shut down companies built around them.
Companies built on surveillance capitalism should be shut down. Full stop.
- manigandham 7y agoWhat business practices? Cookies aren't just used for ads. You could get rid of adtech and not have any change in cookie notices because of how the laws are written.
- ramshorns 7y agoI think the GP is suggesting that the laws should be written differently.
- Semaphor 7y agohow? Functional cookies don't need permissions.
- manigandham 7y agoNot all cookies are functional or ad related. Also the EU cookie directive requires you to inform users that cookies are being used regardless of the reason why.
- ailideex 7y agoI'm pretty sure most sites that asked me to allow cookies in the past week were not "companies built on surveillance capitalism". Youtube rarely asks me about this and to be quite frank I don't mind adds on youtube nor that they are targeted adds - even if they are rather poorly targeted - I'm not sure why this should be illegal. I think whatever problems the cookie laws that got us all the popups are trying to solve would be better solved in conjunction with some technical changes. Like I could say in my browser what sort of cookies I allow - or set up some rules. Sure sites can just break the law and disregard this - but they can do it now anyway by just saving cookies even if I click "don't allow" or "decline" on the dumb popups.