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The most unethical thing about cookie consent windows is that website developers have to develop them in the first place. Cookies are fully opt-in from the clie
by Areading314 4y ago
The most unethical thing about cookie consent windows is that website developers have to develop them in the first place. Cookies are fully opt-in from the client side, it would be trivial for a browser to have settings to ignore or adopt cookies based on preferences of the user. It is a total farce having these warnings, at great cost to developers and users alike.
- tjoff 4y agoThis is twisted. Noone has to develop cookie consent windows. If you do, you are most likely the one being unethical. All cookie-banners are an active choice by site operators.
- Areading314 4y agoEU has laws that threaten millions of euros of fines for not having things like cookie banners. They are required by law for even the most basic user-customizations. And no allowing users to save state on your page is not unethical.
- hasperdi 4y agoYour understanding is incorrect. You don't need to ask consent to saving state that is related to functionality.
- Areading314 4y agoyou don't need consent but you still have to notify users of all their functionality, often this is done with a banner. Still a burden to everyone involved.
- CipherThrowaway 4y agoIANAL but the legal advice at my last two places was that cookies that were necessary for the functionality of the product and its features were exempt from opt-in consent under both ePrivacy and GDPR. This includes sessions and preferences. Cookie banners on page load are not necessary for consent. The user can provide consent at the point of enabling the feature or setting. Of course, non-exempt cookies can not be stored until consent has been obtained.