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>You don't click through cookies just because europe decided so Wrong, it’s because the EU wrote the law so poorly that every site is able to create their own
by whywhywhywhy 4y ago
>You don't click through cookies just because europe decided so
Wrong, it’s because the EU wrote the law so poorly that every site is able to create their own cookie gate with its own dark patterns so now we have to solve what is essentially a puzzle on every website which then decides of we’re tracked or not.
If it had been written competently it would have been a browser setting and we’d have never seen a dialog once.
Sure the intentions were good but the action on those intentions adds up to wasting probably hours or people’s time a year considering it’s every single major website.
- pbhjpbhj 4y agoThe law shows you which companies act in bad faith (ostensibly all of them). The companies choose whether to continue acting badly (but having to tell you, if you're in the EU); or to act kindly and so have no need to inform you they're doing something malicious. There is already a "do not track" setting in browsers. Companies choose whether to annoy you or not.
- whywhywhywhy 4y agoThey could have done the exact same thing by punishing the same people who don’t do the cookie popup but with do not track. As you say people don’t comply with it yet you think they’ll comply with the popup. But instead they had to make a new thing that’s just ended up being abused. The face sites can even force you to wait a few seconds if you don’t opt in is insane. There is no reason why it had to be a dialog, it’s just an arbitrary choice by career bureaucrats that now we have to experience at least once a day.
- BiteCode_dev 4y agoThe law says nothing about a pop up, it requires informed consent. The corporations choose to use the pop up and to ignore the header to comply. Again you are orienting your anger in the wrong direction.