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By Clicking Here You Agree to Accept Cookies [yes] [leave] Hi! The E.U. makes us put up warnings for cookies. These are silly things that every service on

• raverbashing 7y ago
  Yes, this is the story the websites like to tell. Too bad it's a farce.
  • kick 7y ago
    "By moving your mouse on this website, you signal contentment with your data being processed according to our policies." It's very easy to extend to whatever you'd like. Consent on the internet is a farce.
  • shadowgovt 7y ago
    I don't know I'd call it a "farce;" it pretty closely mirrors my experience browsing the World Wide Web these days. EU added a hell of an inefficiency to the WWW by making user education the responsibility of every site with no way for a user to pre-emptively signal "Yeah, I get it, and I don't care."
    • raverbashing 7y ago
      The farce is saying that the popup is needed "because we use cookies". It's because you're using cookies to track users, their PII and sell information and ads. The EU didn't add any inefficiencies, rather, it's forcing the data abuse by websites to come to light. If you use cookies only for login/session tracking then guess what, no popup is needed. Also if the user expressed their consent (or lack of) once, then the popup is not needed anymore (google/fb/etc do exactly that).
      • shadowgovt 7y ago
        So, as a user, how can I signal "I don't care; stop showing me this popup on every site?" Because if the answer is "per-site signaling," that's soft encouragement to keep using the same sites so I don't need to see that tedious notification and it rewards big players over small players (and defeats some of the benefit of the WWW as a hyperlinked network of data that's fairly location-agnostic).
        • raverbashing 7y ago
          > as a user, how can I signal "I don't care; stop showing me this popup on every site?" That's on the website unfortunately > that's soft encouragement to keep using the same sites so I don't need to see that tedious notification and it rewards big players over small players I agree, I would want the same option (since I use privacy browser extensions I don't care), it's not the users fault the small sites are playing it dumb and using some generic annoying "we value your privacy" popup BS.
          • shadowgovt 7y ago
            ... but it may be the fault of the law, since the penalties are significant if small sites don't play the issue conservatively.
            • raverbashing 7y ago
              Fault of the law in which way? The GDPR does not require continuous confirmation of consent, only that they're allowed to withdraw consent at any time > The GDPR does not indicate a shelf life for consent. Theoretically, a person’s consent is indefinite, https://gdpr.eu/gdpr-consent-requirements/ https://gdpr.eu/gdpr-consent-requirements/ > since the penalties are significant if small sites This is FUD, proportionality is used when calculating penalties
              • shadowgovt 7y ago
                > This is FUD, proportionality is used when calculating penalties Can you point to where in the law that guarantee is given? Furthermore, given the previous penalty was "none," any penalty can probably be considered significant for website operators who were previously assuming nearly zero risk in running their sites.
• Trias11 7y ago
  Cookies, shmookies. Most visitors don't know what's cookies are and whats consequances of accepting cookies. By Clicking Here you Agree to give us your personal information and we may share and monetise it with without compensating you in any way. [yes, i'm sucker(or VPN user)] [no, GTFO]