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You can do a block for GDPR countries and avoid the issue entirely. We did that and its worked out fine. This also helps avoid the cookie notice hell that you

You can do a block for GDPR countries and avoid the issue entirely. We did that and its worked out fine. This also helps avoid the cookie notice hell that you get if you design for the EU market - if you go to an EU page you can get a full page of cookie notices. Cloudfront has a geo restrictions option that works well for this.

CrLf 5y ago
You don't need cookie notices for functional cookies (user preferences, load-balancing, session).
- slownews45 5y ago
  You don't know what you do and don't need to do. Literally the page linked here has lots of comments that they are doing cookie notices wrong / should be in jail etc. Some people don't have time for all this lawyering just to post a few things online.
hef19898 5y ago
You could also just put in one pop-up, accept all, reject all, customize. No big deal, is it?
tjoff 5y ago
Because not exploiting your users is too much of a hassle for you?
- erik_seaberg 5y ago
  Don’t be evil is only the first step. You also have to hire specialists and delay launches to continually prove to many bureaucrats’ satisfaction that you are still not evil. Opting out is much cheaper, and maybe safer since the “doesn’t target serving individuals in the EU” language is relatively clear.
  - slownews45 5y ago
    Exactly. the EU is constantly changing the rules here. And penalties can be monumental. Users can also send you various data requests (and hackers can pretend to be users and do the same resulting in data breaches). Just not worth it.
- slownews45 5y ago
  Because users can control how their cookies are set, cleared etc etc? Because it's not evil to not want to risk jail when giving away some stuff for free if you set a cookie by accident that is not approved? Because most users don't care about these endless navel-gazing exercises? Because there are much MUCH worse things online, from scam tech support folks who rip you off to ransomeware to endless other scams and hassles? Because the cookie notice farce has done nothing about my ISP selling my browsing history, my TV reporting my viewing habits and showing me unwanted ads and seems to be designed to get self important folks who are technically clueless to jump around and pat themselves on the back. Because while I never minded making stuff available to EU it's not worth jumping through a bunch of hoops to do so.
  - tjoff 5y ago
    A lot of justifications. Would it really be to much to ask to just play nice instead of first coming up with a scheme to exploit users. Then trying to figure out how to stay within the law. And then finally, go out of your way on the internet to justify your behavior?

CrLf 5y ago

You don't need cookie notices for functional cookies (user preferences, load-balancing, session).

slownews45 5y ago
You don't know what you do and don't need to do. Literally the page linked here has lots of comments that they are doing cookie notices wrong / should be in jail etc. Some people don't have time for all this lawyering just to post a few things online.

hef19898 5y ago

You could also just put in one pop-up, accept all, reject all, customize. No big deal, is it?

tjoff 5y ago

Because not exploiting your users is too much of a hassle for you?

erik_seaberg 5y ago
Don’t be evil is only the first step. You also have to hire specialists and delay launches to continually prove to many bureaucrats’ satisfaction that you are still not evil. Opting out is much cheaper, and maybe safer since the “doesn’t target serving individuals in the EU” language is relatively clear.
- slownews45 5y ago
  Exactly. the EU is constantly changing the rules here. And penalties can be monumental. Users can also send you various data requests (and hackers can pretend to be users and do the same resulting in data breaches). Just not worth it.
slownews45 5y ago
Because users can control how their cookies are set, cleared etc etc? Because it's not evil to not want to risk jail when giving away some stuff for free if you set a cookie by accident that is not approved? Because most users don't care about these endless navel-gazing exercises? Because there are much MUCH worse things online, from scam tech support folks who rip you off to ransomeware to endless other scams and hassles? Because the cookie notice farce has done nothing about my ISP selling my browsing history, my TV reporting my viewing habits and showing me unwanted ads and seems to be designed to get self important folks who are technically clueless to jump around and pat themselves on the back. Because while I never minded making stuff available to EU it's not worth jumping through a bunch of hoops to do so.
- tjoff 5y ago
  A lot of justifications. Would it really be to much to ask to just play nice instead of first coming up with a scheme to exploit users. Then trying to figure out how to stay within the law. And then finally, go out of your way on the internet to justify your behavior?