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Honestly who care about cookies. All those popup are just anoying.

• Lio 6y ago
  Since you ask, I care about cookies. If I visit a website like say, Instagram, they shouldn't leave any tracking before I've had a chance to read the privacy agreement, decide it's not for me and navigate away. Sadly, that's exactly what they do and it's about time they were made to follow the GDPR, at least within the EU.
• raverbashing 6y ago
  I care. That's why I block them, of course. But yes the popups suck. And of course there's an interest in ad companies of making the popups as obnoxious as possible.
• the_other 6y ago
  The legislation was to discourage tracking. Unfortunately it backfired and now the web is even more shit. Easy tracking, particularly via Google and ad networks, is considered so important to basically everyone that deploys it (metrics, revenue), that they feel it's acceptable to put the banners up, rather than develop a different way of gathering and managing the data they want. The fines aren't large enough. Google Analytics is on 50% of all web content (I should research the actual figure). The fine should reflect the effect that has on Goog's revenue, rather than this pocket-money sum.
  • eitland 6y ago
    > rather than develop a different way of gathering and managing the data they want. European laws doesn't care what way it is done. It doesn't need to be cookies, it could be actual magic for that matter and EU would still fine them if they use it to collect user data without consent. And, as others have pointed out: login cookies seems to be fine (as long as one doesn't use them to collect data.)
• matsemann 6y ago
  You don't have to have a popup if you don't track people. Easy-peasy.