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I was a little baffled by the (legally void, and thus pointless) cookie notice on the site -- a site that clearly does not need cookies in order to "operate cor
by mikro2nd 4y ago
I was a little baffled by the (legally void, and thus pointless) cookie notice on the site -- a site that clearly does not need cookies in order to "operate correctly". It clearly states that they use Google and other 3rd parties who set cookies, and that these are "necessary for the site to operate correctly" which appears to me to be a nonsense, since it's just a static text page. Tracking cookies are certainly not "necessary".
- tux2bsd 4y agoAll of those are thanks to the EU. Totally pointless garbage that further train "Click OK" behaviour (after decades of Microsoft's existing conditioning) and enable malicious parties to take advantage of that behaviour.
- tmp2343EU 4y agoThanks to EU we are aware that plain text website is tracking us. ...What for?
- throwaway_xyeet 4y agoThis one actually goes against GDPR since it has no "reject all" button on it.
- tux2bsd 4y agoThat's what it was called, I couldn't recall when I commented.
- pwdisswordfish9 4y agoYes, blame the EU. It's never the greedy websites that are at fault.
- CRConrad 4y agoBullshit. There is absolutely nothing in the GDPR that prevents web sites from not using tracking (or other) cookies.
- ftyers 4y agoYeah, that's one of the worst cookie notices I've seen in a while, no reject button for what is essentially a page of Markdown. In addition snarky wording which I can't work out if I hate more than the faux caring "oh you don't mind if we use cookies do you?" language. FWIW You can use uBlock origin to remove ##.alert-dismissible.alert-info.alert from the page to avoid having to deal with it.