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Govt has probably forever burnt their credibility in this space in terms of user friendly / operable approaches with their cookie notice hell. Everyone has now

Govt has probably forever burnt their credibility in this space in terms of user friendly / operable approaches with their cookie notice hell. Everyone has now been trained to click accept / accept all / OK or whatever on all these pop-ups. Now we are starting to get the even worse GPDR ones with like 6 different options. If I don't want you to track me using cookies I will clear them, block them or isolate them on MY machine. This doesn't require tons of click throughs. I will chose software that helps me with this. Can I actually sue some russian website owner hiding behind some dns registration privacy domain if they use a cookie they shouldn't have? Will I collect? Or is this just tail chasing when an actual technical solution to BLOCK cross domain or other forms of cookie use are available to me. The amount of time wasted on these nightmares, the number of clicks, the horrible impact on user experience is crazy - govt really can't seem to get this stuff right - it's mind boggling. Let's start with simpler things. 1) Ban regulated entities from selling my info or personalizing ads to me based on my browsing history (cable companies) electric usage (electric companies) phone usage (telecom companies). No opt in or out, these are regulated folks with monopoly or close power - banned. 2) Actually ramp up real investigations of folks committing crimes online. There are billions in harm here waiting for someone to give two sh*ts about someone with their life savings stolen. 3) I have a list that goes on and on.

taurath 6y ago
Forcing companies to have mechanisms for the deletion of user data is absolutely a public good. Frankly, most anything was legal before these laws.
kuschku 6y ago
Pretty much none of the cookie notices are legally valid, or we'd all have been trained to just click "no" on all of them (as "no" has to be as easy, or easier, to use than "yes") And while you may be able to block cookies, are you able to block canvas fingerprinting? IRL tracking? the gdpr also applies to every bit of life, to the third parties a doctor can use to process your medical data, to the third parties having access to surveillance cameras in a parking lot, to the legal notifications required when your covid 19 test data or contact tracing data might be breached.
- random5634 6y ago
  The cookie notices in the US have nothing to do with GPDR. They are just annoying. They are even more annoying overseas. Someone should do a study on how many people actually care and click no or tailor these? Is it < 50%?

taurath 6y ago

Forcing companies to have mechanisms for the deletion of user data is absolutely a public good. Frankly, most anything was legal before these laws.

kuschku 6y ago

Pretty much none of the cookie notices are legally valid, or we'd all have been trained to just click "no" on all of them (as "no" has to be as easy, or easier, to use than "yes") And while you may be able to block cookies, are you able to block canvas fingerprinting? IRL tracking? the gdpr also applies to every bit of life, to the third parties a doctor can use to process your medical data, to the third parties having access to surveillance cameras in a parking lot, to the legal notifications required when your covid 19 test data or contact tracing data might be breached.

random5634 6y ago
The cookie notices in the US have nothing to do with GPDR. They are just annoying. They are even more annoying overseas. Someone should do a study on how many people actually care and click no or tailor these? Is it < 50%?