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Technically GDPR could be amended to require compliance notifications to be non-obtrusive and still default to strong privacy protection like disabling non-esse
by AstralStorm 5y ago
Technically GDPR could be amended to require compliance notifications to be non-obtrusive and still default to strong privacy protection like disabling non-essential functionality or data collection and processing.
Of course the ad companies rely on the bad and obtrusive pop-up design to annoy users into clicking accept.
- dspillett 5y agoTechnically GDPR (and other similar regulations) do already require compliance notifications to be non-obtrusive, or at least rejecting consent to be no more difficult than accepting it. Unfortunately that isn't adequately enforced so everyone gets away with making it a massive pain to reliably opt-out and very easy to accidentally permanently opt-in.
- erhk 5y agoELI5 what an "essential" cookie is. Afaik none of them are essential if I refuse to make an account on your platform
- mnw21cam 5y agoOr add an item to a shopping basket. But yes, that's about it.
- corobo 5y agoIf you change cookie settings and want them to remain next time (instead of another popup) that is stored in an essential cookie They're (supposed to be) the ones you can't get rid of, sessions and that. Stuff that would break the site if you couldn't track state across requests
- petre 5y agoOne could set the preferences in their browser once for ever site and maybe add exceptions like in the camera permissions dialog. Make it a simple three choice option, like only necessary (login, shopping basket) cookies, analytics and all, defaulting to necessary only.