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Since everyone seems to agree that this is a nice feature, what do we need to do to make it legal for websites to not pop up the banner to begin with?

• scrollaway 4y ago
  It’s legal already, websites are just being overly cautious. You just need to not be using third party ads and analytics software, more or less, and you’re in the clear. The cookie banner is a nice CYA “we do it because everyone does it” kind of thing, and most people don’t care about degrading the UX because what’s the user gonna do, NOT read our content? And also everyone else does it so shrug. GDPR is pretty sensible overall. The cookie banner is ad companies making it as painful and difficult as possible to reject their crap. Most of these banners are automatically inserted by the third party libraries people pull, not even by the site authors themselves.
  • reitanqild 4y ago
    Correct. Also content companies goes way over the line when they - list 200+ companies under legitimate interest or whatever it said (no way they need that) - make opt out several clicks and opt in one click - shows the banner often if you opt out, never again if you click the wrong button once
• reitanqild 4y ago
  It is already legal. Just follow the rules (tracking is opt in) and no bannner is necessary. In fact, most of the banners I see are non compliant and shouldn't (IMO) help at all when consumer protection authorities gets around to it.