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The EU got us cookie popups all over the web that you can't even simply answer no to. No thanks.

• sofixa 5y ago
  It got you knowledge and consent. Cookie popups are malicious compliance by shady sites and vendors, especially those that "you can't even simply answer no to". Blame them, not the EU for bringing them to light ( like you'd blame Coca-Cola for the amount of sugar in their sugary drinks and not the regulator that made them show it front and center).
  • denton-scratch 5y ago
    This is correct; the cookie banners are an attempt to annoy the EU into abandoning GDPR. Ain't gonna work - we like GDPR. Just use a cookie-blocker (e.g. the one built into your browser), along with some kind of popup-dismisser (e.g. Super Agent, https://www.super-agent.com/ https://www.super-agent.com/). If your browser is configured to block cookies (third-party, or whatever kind you don't want), then it doesn't matter if the popup-dismisser auto-clicks "Accept". The thing that annoys me more is those US local news-services that outright block access from IPs that they think are within the EU. They aren't pitching their content at a EU audience, so they don't care. But if they're already checking where the visitor's IP is, couldn't they just decline to serve cookies? I think they're just ignorant about GDPR. It's not hard to grok GDPR and comply with it, unless you have a business built around collecting PII. [Edit] Incidentally, I'm not in the EU, since Brexit. That was two years ago - but I'm still blocked from e.g. LA Times.
    • Proven 5y ago
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  • Proven 5y ago