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Cookie consent banners have nothing to do with GDPR, but with the ePrivacy directive. GDPR clarifies what is "consent", but this is not what leaded to the proli
by Reventlov 5y ago
Cookie consent banners have nothing to do with GDPR, but with the ePrivacy directive. GDPR clarifies what is "consent", but this is not what leaded to the proliferation of cookie banners.
Please note if you have strictly necessary cookies, you don't need to have cookie banners, and if your cookies are anonymous, you don't need them either !
The proliferation of cookie banners just means that people running such websites are usually terrible with regards to consent, personally identifiable information, and so on.
- cmeacham98 5y agoNon-essential cookies are personal data as regulated by the GDPR. It is true the EPD started the cookie consent popup craze though.
- RamblingCTO 5y agoFinally, at least one person in this thread who understands that GDPR is not cookie banners. I mean WTF, we're on hacker news. Oh wait, yeah, we're on hacker news.
- mr_toad 5y agoI routinely delete these “strictly necessary” cookies and the world doesn’t end. Worst case scenario is I have to log in again.