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Unavailable from the EU.
by Flockster 5y ago
Unavailable from the EU.
- ur-whale 5y ago
- CoastalCoder 5y agoWhy?
- derefr 5y agoPresumably because sites not available in the EU aren’t legally obligated to annoy everyone with cookie consent banners.
- oneplane 5y agoThey aren't legally obligated to track people with cookies either. It's always their own choice.
- dazc 5y agoBut they have a cookie consent banner regardless of whether they are tracking people of not.
- hansel_der 5y agoFixed that for you: But they are tracking people regardless of whether they have a cookie consent banner or not.
- Xylakant 5y agoWhy would a site available in the EU be obligated to annoy everyone with cookie consent banners. Many probably do, but it’s laziness on their part, but there’s no legal obligation to do so.
- rob74 5y agoIANAL, but I doubt that sites not available in the EU are legally obligated to annoy non-EU visitors with cookie consent banners? Of course, it's easier to annoy everyone, but if you can block EU visitors based on their IP you can also show the cookie consent banner only for these IPs?
- derefr 5y agoBecause the banners are targeted at EU citizens, not people geographically within the EU. You're required to show the banners to e.g. EU citizens living in the US. ETA: under GDPR, blocking the EU geographically (e.g. via GeoIP), in combination with requiring user registrations to specify that they’re not EU citizens, would be considered a “good-faith effort” to avoid collecting the data of EU citizens.
- rob74 5y agoOk, that's pretty absurd and technically impossible, but blocking users from the EU, as many US sites do, does not "fix" for this issue, because EU users living in the US will be able to use the site without getting a cookie banner.
- stickfigure 5y agoGood luck extraditing.
- dazc 5y agoThe burden of complying with EU privacy laws that benefit no one aside from a powerful lobby group of EU-based media businesses.
- disgruntledphd2 5y agoHuh? Personally, as an EU citizen, I like the laws, and feel like they benefit me.
- ur-whale 5y agoWe're not talking about the laws here but about the dumb pop-up you anyway click OK on systematically and therefore serves exactly no purpose.
- disgruntledphd2 5y agoWell, actually what I do almost always is click reject all on the GDPR ones, then tab over to the legitimate interest tab and object to all of that too. I can't speak for the behaviours of others. If you have a real legitimate interest, you don't need my consent, so I feel entirely justified in objecting to their fake-ass "legitimate interest" (i.e. please let us do what we want).
- kreeben 5y agoTo send a signal to the EU that US based web sites wish to continue to steal their users' PII and sell it to whomever they wish, without users having to give their consent, because that's how you make money when you don't have good, quality product.