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I guess anti-GDPR won. So-called "Cookie popups" are about so much more than cookies. Looks like anti-GPDR marketing managed to make even technically-literate p
by phh 4y ago
I guess anti-GDPR won. So-called "Cookie popups" are about so much more than cookies. Looks like anti-GPDR marketing managed to make even technically-literate people unaware of their rights.
If you're using a menstruating-cycle app, GPDR will protect you against the app owner publicizing your name that you're pregnant, and thus protect you against anti-abortion mobs, if you wish to abort. A cookie banner wouldn't do that. Because GPDR is NOT about the cookies.
If we were to speak exclusively about tracking (which is, again, a very very small part of GPDR), even simply dismissing as a browser-side "feature" is yet another brainwashing win from anti-GPDR marketing. The number of ways to track people in a browser is infinite. From canvas rendering, to DRM, from cache leakage to window size. Hell, even the GPDR banners explicitly say so! Most GPDR banners now contains an option to allow site owner to fingerprint your browser to track you.
Considering the way we went with browsers (was it right adding so many features? I don't know. But the effects are there), we CAN NOT put this on browsers, it is technically impossible. If Google wants to prove the world that it is possible, fine, I'll grab popcorn. But at the moment they are not even trying.
So no, history has proven again and again that those privacy issues can not be handled technically. Only through regulation can privacy be preserved.
- chrismorgan 4y agoI think the really crazy thing about the cookie banner stuff is that it’s actually nothing to do with GDPR: it’s almost entirely about the ePrivacy Directive of 2002. Yes, 2002. (At that time it was opt-out, but you still had to disclose clearly; in 2009, it was revised to opt-in, and there was again very minor fuss but not much compliance.) It’s just that most people didn’t do much about it until GDPR came along, and then people conflated the two.
- Reason077 4y ago> "If you're using a menstruating-cycle app, GPDR will protect you against the app owner publicizing your name that you're pregnant, and thus protect you against anti-abortion mobs, if you wish to abort. A cookie banner wouldn't do that. Because GPDR is NOT about the cookies." Absolutely. I'm not arguing against GDPR, which includes many important rights and protections that don't have much to do with cookies. I'm arguing against intrusive and pointless cookie pop-ups.