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The law says that agreeing or disagreeing should be equally easy. Companies are breaking that law.
by btdmaster 5y ago
The law says that agreeing or disagreeing should be equally easy. Companies are breaking that law.
- dfinninger 5y agoPersonally, I rarely come across a site that makes it harder to agree than disagree. I find both paths equally annoying.
- forty 5y agoWe must not use the same internet. Agree is always one click for me, and there is generally no disagree button, but a "manage your privacy settings" button, that opens the biggest popups ever, slow as hell, when then even work,with thousand of button to click.
- adhesive_wombat 5y agoExamples are plentiful. https://twitter.com/cookieshame https://twitter.com/cookieshame One interesting thing is that loads of sites use OneTrust to implement illegal banners. However OneTrust has a compliant banner on their own site. So they can do it, but most sites deliberately configure it illegally.
- scarface74 5y agoIt’s hard to know what a law says that requires you to read 11 chapters with 99 sections just to create a website. https://gdpr-info.eu/ https://gdpr-info.eu/
- paulmd 5y agocompletely false, it's trivially possible to create a website without needing to involve GDPR at all.
- adhesive_wombat 5y agoDon't collect any information you don't actually have to, and if you do hold personal information, treat it basically like you'd want your own information treated, and you're basically good. It's really that simple. The only people who think it's particularly hard or onerous are the people referenced by "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
- scarface74 5y agoI don’t deal with the clusterf%%% of modern front end development. I’m just tired of seeing cookie banners everywhere. Did the law in anyway make my life better?
- adhesive_wombat 5y agoObnoxious banners are not required under GDPR. In fact, unless denying consent is as easy as granting it, they're illegal. It's not the law's fault that companies would rather implement such detrimental UX than either give up the teat of personal data or give people their rights. It is, however, the fault of regulators for not stamping down on such behaviour when it is against both the letter and spirit of the law. And, honestly, I consider the fact that so many websites are forced to admit that they are trying to take and sell my data to be positive.
- scarface74 5y agoWhy do I care whose “fault” it is? Did government intervention make my life better or worse? As Reagan said the most dangerous words in the English language “I’m from the government and I’m here to help”.
- naniwaduni 5y agoThe great "mistake" of GDPR is that it has consent provisions at all. After previous cookie banners, they really should've known better. (Or, let's be real, absolutely did know, but left it in for corporate interests anyway.)
- selcuka 5y agoHow do you know what is needed for that without reading the GDPR?
- paulmd 5y agoif you don't collect personal data or analytics, you aren't covered by GDPR at all. in the abstract sense of course everyone has to know all the laws of society - the law in its majestic equality forbids unsafe construction practices from builders and greengrocers alike - but that's not a particularly interesting or insightful observation.
- emptysongglass 5y agoI don't want to agree or disagree at all. I want my internet back pre-banners where I just get the content. The new internet is awful.
- adhesive_wombat 5y agoPersonally I like the banners because they are an active reminder that that website is explicitly harvesting personal information.