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Companies have always had to ask for permission to store cookies. The user / user’s browser decides whether to allow them, how long to keep them for, which site
by goodluckchuck 5y ago
Companies have always had to ask for permission to store cookies. The user / user’s browser decides whether to allow them, how long to keep them for, which sites will be allowed to access which cookies.
This should have been / should be fixed on the user end.
- II2II 5y agoFixes were attempted on the user end decades ago. What did companies do? They ensured the end user was flooded with browser initiated cookie requests. Notice a parallel with the current situation? Browsers now use better approaches, but nothing is guaranteed when web developers try to circumvent the protections because they cannot accept that no means no.
- nerdponx 5y agoMalicious compliance in action.
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- layer8 5y agoBrowsers rejecting cookies just leads to the website displaying a popup to please enable cookies or else you’re not allowed to see the content. That’s actually even less user-friendly.
- Nextgrid 5y agoData processing consent covers much more than just cookies.