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Presumably because sites not available in the EU aren’t legally obligated to annoy everyone with cookie consent banners.
by derefr 5y ago
Presumably 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.