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Same here. I would be interested to know from people outside the GDPR area - do you ever see cookie banners? Do you know what they are? Sometimes I hit a USA b
by sefrost 6y ago
Same here. I would be interested to know from people outside the GDPR area - do you ever see cookie banners? Do you know what they are?
Sometimes I hit a USA based news website which simply denies access, because I'm in the UK, on GDPR grounds. Which seems an overreaction.
- bombcar 6y agoEVERY WEBSITE I visit from my location in the USA seems to have these stupid cookie popups. We added one to OUR WEBSITE even though nothing is hosted in the EU - simple cargo-culting "everyone is doing it so we must do it also". I doubt it actually does a @#$@$ darn thing.
- shadowgovt 6y agoWe've had them up long enough for somebody to have generated some hard numbers by now. I wonder what the numbers look like on percentage of users that modify the settings from the default?
- layoutIfNeeded 6y agoI don’t have a cookie banner on my website. You know why? Because I don’t track my users with (or without) cookies. Maybe you should stop doing it on your website, and then the cookie banner can be removed.
- josefx 6y ago> We added one to OUR WEBSITE even though nothing is hosted in the EU Location of the host is irrelevant, it depends on the target audience. Serve pages to the EU? You get to follow it. > simple cargo-culting "everyone is doing it so we must do it also". If your site is cargo culting everything it probably also has a ton of third party trackers for the same reason.
- Zak 6y ago> Serve pages to the EU? You get to follow it. What can the EU do about it if the company has no physical or legal presence in the EU? Have there been any serious attempts at such enforcement?
- bombcar 6y agoI have decreed that anyone who serves pages into my machines owes me $billion.
- strictnein 6y agoIt's weird how people keep claiming this. No one says that all sites should honor China's laws for visitors from China. No one claims that all sites should honor Saudi Arabia's laws for visitors from Saudi Arabia. But magically the GDPR must be followed by the entire world if a visitor shows up from France.
- josefx 6y agoChina has the great firewall, the EU tried something similar under the "think of the children" excuse, which promptly failed. Also a lot of people speaking out against China had to find out the hard way what some western companies will do when you speak out against a cash cow that will happily kick them out if its rules are enforced.
- makapuf 6y agoA firewall is not the only way to enforce this I'd guess. If I open a shop in China and do business here I might have to comply with local laws.
- iso1210 6y agoUSA set the precedent when the FBI arrested Dmitry Sklyarov (a Russian Citizen) for working for a Russian company that apparently, while in Russia, broke US law. It would be like Wendys slagging off the Thai king on a billboard in Dakota, then an employee of Wendys went on holiday to Bangkok and was arrested.
- strictnein 6y ago> Location of the host is irrelevant, it depends on the target audience. Serve pages to the EU? You get to follow it. This is completely false. Your laws do not follow you around on the internet.
- anoncake 6y ago> Location of the host is irrelevant, it depends on the target audience. Serve pages to the EU? You get to follow it. No, merely serving pages to the world (that happens to include the EU) does not mean you have to follow the GDPR. That is only the case if you cater to EU residents specifically (e.g. by taking payments in Euros).
- celestialcheese 6y agoUS companies started implementing it as a result of CCPA. So it's everywhere now