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> the GDPR is the source of the now-near-ubiquitous cookie-consent noise I didn't think this was true off the top of my head, and a quick dig supports that: h

> the GDPR is the source of the now-near-ubiquitous cookie-consent noise I didn't think this was true off the top of my head, and a quick dig supports that: https://gdpr.eu/cookies/ https://gdpr.eu/cookies/ The GDPR doesn't have anything to say about cookies, aside from that they count as Personal Data. (It's quite readable, you can verify this for yourself: https://gdpr-info.eu/ https://gdpr-info.eu/). GDPR is about what happens to the data you share with a company, what they are allowed to do with it, who they are allowed to share it with, what your rights to delete that data are, and what the penalties should be if they leak/misuse your data.

shadowgovt 4y ago
Because cookies count as personal data (which is pretty strange by itself... data the client stores that the server hands it is personal?), The need to gather consent to store cookies on your machine became suddenly ubiquitous, and rather than cease to store them (which should have been a ridiculous expectation on its face... What, every website on the planet was going to audit how the cookies are used? Nobody's spending that money, and you can't just remove them without risking breaking some flow), companies went with the shortest path to continuing their current practices with no major changes, which was to pop a banner asking for your consent. That outcome should have been obvious and the fact that it wasn't does not inspire confidence in the people making these laws.
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