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You can blame so much of it on the broken GDPR law. If you run a website, you have to put up a cookie banner. It does nothing - practically everyone just clicks

You can blame so much of it on the broken GDPR law. If you run a website, you have to put up a cookie banner. It does nothing - practically everyone just clicks accept. Lawmakers are living in some imaginary universe where consumers read the terms and conditions of every website they visit. Their privacy laws are seriously out of touch. Or maybe they're designed purposefully to be that way.

KingMachiavelli 6y ago
I seem to recall this actually being a common but incorrect take on the cookie banner, my understanding is that no cookie prompt is necessary for basic site functionality (passing data between pages, user preferences, etc.). And actually a banner is only needed when the cookie use case is user tracking or could be used as such i.e could identify a unique visitor. So most sites could choose to give up analytics (altough tbh the most important metrics would still be fine like daily page hit count, etc.) but it's easier to add the banner and blame GDPR. But perhaps, once a company is a certain size their legal department just screams all day about needing a cookie banner? Also very possible. https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/114973/are-session-cookies-exempt-from-consent-under-gdpr https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/114973/are-se...
dmitriid 6y ago
No, you don't have to put up a cookie banner if the cookies are essential to your website. For example, to handle logins or purchases. If you include non-essential cookies (like, for example, tracking cookies set by two or three hundred advertisers), you must ask the user for their consent. The site must have "decline all" as the default option, and should continue to provide basic functionality when the user declines. All the banners that don't have the opt-out option or making it difficult to opt-out willfully break the law. And yes, GDPR is a good law.
- donor20 6y ago
  You run a free website that survives based on advertising. This is essential for the website to continue to be viable. Are cookies essential then? You run a shopping cart. As part of your fraud detection you put a fraud cookie beacon on every page. Is the fraud beacon essential? As part of your product development / ab testing etc you track users on your website. Is this essential? For affiliate link fraud control third parties want to have a cookie on your site that leads through to their clickthrough link. Essential? Reality - you need to stick up a cookie banner to operate a website or get into long complicated legal arguments and face big liability. And that's what folks do, including practically every government agency.
dkersten 6y ago
GDPR has little to do with the cookie pop ups, which predate it. In any case, the cookie law allows essential cookies (Login, shopping cart etc) without consent (and GDPR allows data that is necessary for operation eg collecting your address to ship a product).

KingMachiavelli 6y ago

I seem to recall this actually being a common but incorrect take on the cookie banner, my understanding is that no cookie prompt is necessary for basic site functionality (passing data between pages, user preferences, etc.). And actually a banner is only needed when the cookie use case is user tracking or could be used as such i.e could identify a unique visitor. So most sites could choose to give up analytics (altough tbh the most important metrics would still be fine like daily page hit count, etc.) but it's easier to add the banner and blame GDPR. But perhaps, once a company is a certain size their legal department just screams all day about needing a cookie banner? Also very possible. https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/114973/are-session-cookies-exempt-from-consent-under-gdpr https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/114973/are-se...

dmitriid 6y ago

No, you don't have to put up a cookie banner if the cookies are essential to your website. For example, to handle logins or purchases. If you include non-essential cookies (like, for example, tracking cookies set by two or three hundred advertisers), you must ask the user for their consent. The site must have "decline all" as the default option, and should continue to provide basic functionality when the user declines. All the banners that don't have the opt-out option or making it difficult to opt-out willfully break the law. And yes, GDPR is a good law.

donor20 6y ago
You run a free website that survives based on advertising. This is essential for the website to continue to be viable. Are cookies essential then? You run a shopping cart. As part of your fraud detection you put a fraud cookie beacon on every page. Is the fraud beacon essential? As part of your product development / ab testing etc you track users on your website. Is this essential? For affiliate link fraud control third parties want to have a cookie on your site that leads through to their clickthrough link. Essential? Reality - you need to stick up a cookie banner to operate a website or get into long complicated legal arguments and face big liability. And that's what folks do, including practically every government agency.

dkersten 6y ago

GDPR has little to do with the cookie pop ups, which predate it. In any case, the cookie law allows essential cookies (Login, shopping cart etc) without consent (and GDPR allows data that is necessary for operation eg collecting your address to ship a product).