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The amount of time the EU has taken away from internet users with this insane policy is ridiculous. Yes, everyone in the fucking EU knows what a cookie is now.
by zpeti 6y ago
The amount of time the EU has taken away from internet users with this insane policy is ridiculous. Yes, everyone in the fucking EU knows what a cookie is now. I can't believe I have to waste 3-5 seconds of my life on most website visits clicking a box.
But obviously sitting in an office in Brussels making an actual calculations of the years you take away from people is not something you do.
- TomMarius 6y agoActually no one around me does know, which shows just how misguided the law is.
- nicbou 6y agoDon't blame the regulation, blame everyone who is trying to get you to click the consent button. Cookies are a simple yes/no question, with the default answer being no. If everyone did what's in the users' best interests, it would be a non-issue.
- djohnston 6y agoyou need session tokens to do useful things on WWW. why is the default no? i want my default to be yes.
- chacha2 6y agoGDPR only needs a cookie warning if it's used for tracking.
- notechback 6y agoTechnical cookies don't need consent.
- zpeti 6y agoSo how do you store user information then? Like logins? Sessions? Also rely on cookies. Browser fingerprinting? Great - then you've switched one problem for another. This entire EU regulation is a non solution to a not really existing problem. Yes, third party advertisers use cookies to track you. But they can build technologies to use something else. In the meantime you are a) breaking the internet b) wasting hours of each EU citizens time every year.
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- Cthulhu_ 6y agoThose are functional cookies, which can be placed without asking for consent. A site that just removes tracking and advertising does not need a cookie consent warning. They do not ask "can I place cookies"; they ask "Can my third-party trackers and advertisers place markers on your system so that your activity can be tracked across this and other websites". Don't stare yourself blind on the poorly chosen wording. It's not the "cookie law" either, it's the General Data Protection Regulation. It's not about cookies, it's about regaining control over your personal data, your online behaviour, etc.
- stan_rogers 6y agoThose are all allowed without explicit consent - it's right in the regulation. What isn't allowed without consent is all of the tracking and data-sharing nonsense that isn't actually required for the website to function.
- zpeti 6y agoTheoretically. Practically almost all websites need third party cookies to use any decent analytics platform (most often GA). So the end result is still that 100% of websites need cookie consent.
- hammington 6y agoyou blame the law trying to protect you rather than the sites trying to take advantage of you? interesting perspective. I 100% blame the people running the sites and whenever possible just close pages that come up with all this crap - if you are not doing anything dodgey there is basically nothing to get consent for.
- orasis 6y agoHow is basic analytics “dodgey”?
- travisporter 6y agoOr, maybe they're balancing it with the amount of money/time you spend buying stuff you didn't really need/shopping. It's probably not illegal to have someone follow you to see where you shop, eat, work and sleep, but if a company could deploy one person to follow you 24/7 and report back for basically for free without telling you, there's a line crossed. Also, besides browsing news/Reddit/shopping, where do you see the GDPR prompt? Banks, AWS, GCP, don't use tracking cookies, so how many "years" of productive work are really being taken away? Sure, its a barrier to shopping which also boosts the economy, but why does Nissan they need to know I just bought a power inverter or visited Tesla if they deliver a solid car on their own merits?
- hackissimo123 6y ago> everyone in the fucking EU knows what a cookie is now No, they really, really don't.