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>Just remove cookie banners unless you’re using an ad network You also need a cookie banner in EU in case your website uses any cookies that are not necessary

>Just remove cookie banners unless you’re using an ad network You also need a cookie banner in EU in case your website uses any cookies that are not necessary to serve the content. This includes analytics, telemetry, and so on. It's not only ads. You can remove the cookie banner if your website uses cookies only for required functionality like log-on.

chriswarbo 4y ago
> You also need a cookie banner in EU in case your website uses any cookies that are not necessary to serve the content. Not quite, for two reasons: - The law doesn't care about cookies, it cares about personal data, which includes any data which can individually identify someone (like a cookie associating them with a user account). If you're collecting or processing any personal data, that requires consent; even if you have no cookies. - The law doesn't care about serving-as-in-content; it cares about providing a service, which could be showing content on a Web site, or could be dispatching orders from a warehouse, or whatever. If someone's personal data is required to provide a service for them, then their consent is implied. The reason analytics, tracking, ad networks, etc. do not have implied consent, is because the people receiving the service (e.g. those buying ad space) are not the people who the personal data is about (i.e. ad companies cannot consent on my behalf!)
- M2Ys4U 4y ago
  You're only talking about the GDPR. But the cookie banners aren't there because of the GDPR, they're there because of the ePrivacy Directive. It's this directive (which pre-dates the GDPR) that makes it illegal to store or access data on the end user's devices without consent unless it is strictly necessary for the provision of the service.
  - chriswarbo 4y ago
    > makes it illegal to store or access data on the end user's devices without consent unless it is strictly necessary for the provision of the service. How is that different to what I said above? (Modulo "s/without consent/implicit consent/g")
happymellon 4y ago
You can have all those things without cookies. And you will need consent, because it has nothing to do with cookies. You need a telemetry banner.
- Nextgrid 4y ago
  Or you just don't use telemetry?
  - happymellon 4y ago
    That's the point, if you don't want to request consent, don't use telemetry. It has nothing to do with cookies.

chriswarbo 4y ago

> You also need a cookie banner in EU in case your website uses any cookies that are not necessary to serve the content. Not quite, for two reasons: - The law doesn't care about cookies, it cares about personal data, which includes any data which can individually identify someone (like a cookie associating them with a user account). If you're collecting or processing any personal data, that requires consent; even if you have no cookies. - The law doesn't care about serving-as-in-content; it cares about providing a service, which could be showing content on a Web site, or could be dispatching orders from a warehouse, or whatever. If someone's personal data is required to provide a service for them, then their consent is implied. The reason analytics, tracking, ad networks, etc. do not have implied consent, is because the people receiving the service (e.g. those buying ad space) are not the people who the personal data is about (i.e. ad companies cannot consent on my behalf!)

M2Ys4U 4y ago
You're only talking about the GDPR. But the cookie banners aren't there because of the GDPR, they're there because of the ePrivacy Directive. It's this directive (which pre-dates the GDPR) that makes it illegal to store or access data on the end user's devices without consent unless it is strictly necessary for the provision of the service.
- chriswarbo 4y ago
  > makes it illegal to store or access data on the end user's devices without consent unless it is strictly necessary for the provision of the service. How is that different to what I said above? (Modulo "s/without consent/implicit consent/g")

happymellon 4y ago

You can have all those things without cookies. And you will need consent, because it has nothing to do with cookies. You need a telemetry banner.

Nextgrid 4y ago
Or you just don't use telemetry?
- happymellon 4y ago
  That's the point, if you don't want to request consent, don't use telemetry. It has nothing to do with cookies.