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I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I think GDPR is a great step towards stopping companies hoarding your data and holding you hostage to it. On

I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I think GDPR is a great step towards stopping companies hoarding your data and holding you hostage to it. On the other, main GDPR change is those awful 'hand over data / pretend you're not' dialogue boxes. When I'm feeling strong, I look for the 'reject / object / blah' box, but often I don't find it in me to resist anymore. So maybe it's not awful they're reshaping GDPR.

beforeolives 6y ago
This won't be a change aiming to improve your web browsing user experience. It will likely be a change to reduce your rights and legal protections.
martin_a 6y ago
The GDPR sets a pretty straight border for this. No active (this does NOT include "by using this site you accept...") approval = no permission to collect data and give it to third parties. That's the law. But we'll still need some hard work and hefty fines to make everyone obey it.
- rich_sasha 6y ago
  Right - the law sounds good. But it's not the practice I see on the t'Internet.
  - martin_a 6y ago
    Then push it! I've done this before and there are active cases running with the regulatory offices in Germany. It's a slow process for sure but it'll get faster and words will spread, that people are using their rights.
    - Nextgrid 6y ago
      To be fair, the ICO is absolutely incompetent and does not seem to care about enforcing the GDPR. I've reported things much worse than non-compliant consent prompts and the best I got out of them was to send a letter to the organization after months of waiting, which the organization promptly ignored.
- ahartmetz 6y ago
  Yeah. For now it's more of a latent danger than a law that is enforced according to its spirit or even letter - the letter of the law is fairly clear. I hope and assume that it will be enforced as soon as someone in the right position takes an interest in it.
bawolff 6y ago
The cookie boxes are silly and hardly represent informed consent. It should be the browsers job to do this. I remember it used to be a thing in the netscape navigator days until everyone got sick of it.
krageon 6y ago
> often I don't find it in me to resist anymore. All you need to do is not say yes. The easiest way to do this is filter cookiebars/walls/whatever in as many places as you can. Without an answer, the answer is no.

beforeolives 6y ago

This won't be a change aiming to improve your web browsing user experience. It will likely be a change to reduce your rights and legal protections.

martin_a 6y ago

The GDPR sets a pretty straight border for this. No active (this does NOT include "by using this site you accept...") approval = no permission to collect data and give it to third parties. That's the law. But we'll still need some hard work and hefty fines to make everyone obey it.

rich_sasha 6y ago
Right - the law sounds good. But it's not the practice I see on the t'Internet.
- martin_a 6y ago
  Then push it! I've done this before and there are active cases running with the regulatory offices in Germany. It's a slow process for sure but it'll get faster and words will spread, that people are using their rights.
  - Nextgrid 6y ago
    To be fair, the ICO is absolutely incompetent and does not seem to care about enforcing the GDPR. I've reported things much worse than non-compliant consent prompts and the best I got out of them was to send a letter to the organization after months of waiting, which the organization promptly ignored.
ahartmetz 6y ago
Yeah. For now it's more of a latent danger than a law that is enforced according to its spirit or even letter - the letter of the law is fairly clear. I hope and assume that it will be enforced as soon as someone in the right position takes an interest in it.

bawolff 6y ago

The cookie boxes are silly and hardly represent informed consent. It should be the browsers job to do this. I remember it used to be a thing in the netscape navigator days until everyone got sick of it.

krageon 6y ago

> often I don't find it in me to resist anymore. All you need to do is not say yes. The easiest way to do this is filter cookiebars/walls/whatever in as many places as you can. Without an answer, the answer is no.