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Or just be like Github which has no cookie banner since they only use essential cookies.
by EtienneK 5y ago
Or just be like Github which has no cookie banner since they only use essential cookies.
- grishka 5y agoIIRC Stackoverflow has ads and thus all the nastiness that comes with them.
- Vinnl 5y agoNote that ads don't inherently need tracking. DuckDuckGo has ads, but no cookie banner - what ad to show is based purely on what you're searching for (and some other ephemeral data, like your location, I assume).
- maccard 5y agoThird party targeted ads require cookie consent. Untargetted ads that are contextual to stackoverflow would not.
- andreareina 5y agoI don't know the specific implementation of stack exchange/overflow ads, but given the blatant disregard they've shown for the community I'm not expecting they've done the privacy-preserving thing
- nkrisc 5y agoYou don’t need cookies to show ads. Newspapers did it before the internet, no invasive tracking required.
- hackerfromthefu 5y agoDear god yes - this is the answer. Display ads aligned to content on the page and thats it.
- reaperducer 5y agoDisplay ads aligned to content on the page and thats it. Which is what Google promised us when it rolled out AdSense. That's why its called "Ad" "Sense" — By crawling your page ahead of time, Google could "sense" what ads were appropriate to match the content. But at some point, Google ditched content matching and went after people matching.
- IshKebab 5y agoStackoverflow has a really strong user-generated ad signal, like Google. Users literally tell them what they're interested in. They don't need tracking.
- jsiepkes 5y agoI don't think the business model of Google and Facebook allows such a thing.
- the_other 5y agoNow you're getting to the spirit of the legislation.
- jokethrowaway 5y agoI thought the spirit of the law was to annoy users, who don't care about being tracked, with popups.
- malermeister 5y agoI'm a user. I don't like being tracked. Now what?
- DangitBobby 5y agoThe spirit of the law is to protect users. The spirit of the interpretation is malicious compliance designed to annoy users into advocating against their own rights and interests.
- lrem 5y agoFollow the spirit of the law? CRAZY TALK!
- Cthulhu_ 5y agoI mean that's the obvious solution, which for some reason most companies seem to forget about. I've done a number of projects where we had to rush a cookie banner, but with a lot of them, if they just did away with Google Analytics or click tracking or whatever, they wouldn't need any of it.
- yosito 5y agoBut how is the project manager going to feel useful without creating Jira tickets to add tracking scripts to projects? /s
- rad_gruchalski 5y agoProject managers do not come up with business requirements.
- j4yav 5y agoThey sure can make JIRA tickets, though. :)
- rad_gruchalski 5y agoThey sure can but no business requirement - no JIRA ticket.
- j4yav 5y agoI’ve never seen something like that hold a motivated ticket creator back
- i_am_proteus 5y ago"requirements"
- Raed667 5y agoA lot of websites make parts of their revenue from ads. This would be almost impossible for all of them.
- PontifexMinimus 5y agoWebshites [sic] that include multiple pop-ups, privacy violations, and other nastiness that get in the way of me reading the text on the page ought to go bankrupt. They provide a public dis-service and the world is better off without them. Yes, there needs to me a new business model for monetising content.
- EtienneK 5y agoAgreed. We need to fix the web's default business model to something that does not require people to be tracked all the time.
- jokethrowaway 5y agoWhy? If that gets me free stuff I'm fine with being tracked. Why don't we let users decide instead of letting a vocal minority dictate laws that ruin everyone's browsing experience?
- kreeben 5y agoBusinesses ruined their web sites and everyone's browsing experience, not law makers.
- yunohn 5y ago> vocal minority A vocal minority that gets paid a cushy upper middle class wage and can afford to “pay for every website view”.
- smolder 5y agoThe power gained over people when they submit to being monitored by pocket 1984 telescreens leads to totalitarian bullshit, inevitably. Free stuff for now, lost rights forever. It doesn't matter who is recording you, the information will end up in the wrong hands, and has. Maybe I seem hyperbolic, but on longer time scales there is certainly a trend towards taking our agency from us as we become more dependent on tech. There is no free lunch. What I would give, to be the guy everyone hates for taking their free shit away and saving democracy...