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If you are not using incognito then you are getting tracked. These consent popups are close to useless because only good actors will obey the law, and as we’ve

If you are not using incognito then you are getting tracked. These consent popups are close to useless because only good actors will obey the law, and as we’ve seen the vast majority of websites are somewhere between grey hat (asking but in a way that breaks the law) and black hat (not asking at all). What we need is better isolation at the browser and web protocol level. This is a technical problem, not a regulatory problem. You cannot regulate actors who don’t obey the law in the first place.

atoav 5y ago
Those who disobey the law can be sued. People just need to start doing it. The goal of the law is partly to make people who run websites aware of what they do with the data of their visitors. And that means for one part that they need to know what happens with things they embed in thwir site like google analytics and google fonts (for which someone has been sued already). But it also means that once website owners are informed they can decide wheter they want to ask people for their consent or whether they just remove those third party options. In reality many don't inform themselves at all and just slap a cookie thing onto their page, because that's what all the others are doing — just like they did with google analytics et al. Not knowing the law is not an excuse which will help you once someone sues you tho.
- zarzavat 5y ago
  There are not enough lawyers or court capacity to take the entire www to court, and even if there were, there's no way to enforce injunctions or collect on judgments when websites are operated in different countries. This is evidenced by the fact that the GDPR already made these actions illegal with huge penalties and it has had scarcely any effect. Most websites just ignore it completely as a "strange foreign law", including this one.
iamacyborg 5y ago
> If you are not using incognito then you are getting tracked You’re being tracked in incognito mode, too.

atoav 5y ago

Those who disobey the law can be sued. People just need to start doing it. The goal of the law is partly to make people who run websites aware of what they do with the data of their visitors. And that means for one part that they need to know what happens with things they embed in thwir site like google analytics and google fonts (for which someone has been sued already). But it also means that once website owners are informed they can decide wheter they want to ask people for their consent or whether they just remove those third party options. In reality many don't inform themselves at all and just slap a cookie thing onto their page, because that's what all the others are doing — just like they did with google analytics et al. Not knowing the law is not an excuse which will help you once someone sues you tho.

zarzavat 5y ago
There are not enough lawyers or court capacity to take the entire www to court, and even if there were, there's no way to enforce injunctions or collect on judgments when websites are operated in different countries. This is evidenced by the fact that the GDPR already made these actions illegal with huge penalties and it has had scarcely any effect. Most websites just ignore it completely as a "strange foreign law", including this one.

iamacyborg 5y ago

> If you are not using incognito then you are getting tracked You’re being tracked in incognito mode, too.