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And yet it's been 7 years and the banners still exist.

by devnullbrain 3y ago

illiarian 3y ago
Because the industry doesn't want to give up on tracking and siphoning user data.
- devnullbrain 3y ago
  7 years of complaining about it hasn't changed that. Do you think another 7 years will be more effective? Alternatively, the EU could change the laws. Or enforce the existing ones.
  - illiarian 3y ago
    > 7 years of complaining about it hasn't changed that. Funnily how "7 years of complaining" was, and continues to be, only about the EU. Not about the predatory businesses creating these banners (often in direct violation of GDPR). > Or enforce the existing ones. That's definitely the biggest criticism you can level at EU: they are too slow in enforcing this. I think the tide is very slowly changing. First they started showing reject buttons https://noyb.eu/en/where-did-all-reject-buttons-come https://noyb.eu/en/where-did-all-reject-buttons-come There's a report on the cookie banners in the works: https://noyb.eu/en/data-protection-authorities-support-noybs-call-fair-yesno-cookie-banners https://noyb.eu/en/data-protection-authorities-support-noybs... etc.
    - devnullbrain 3y ago
      >was, and continues to be, only about the EU. Not about the predatory businesses creating these banners https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17679596 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17679596 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25457469 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25457469 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30982470 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30982470 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23090393 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23090393 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29529062 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29529062 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19381063 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19381063 All of these links have comments against this sentiment.
      - illiarian 3y ago
        I will admit that there's also a slowly grown understanding of where the cookie banners come from, so it's not "100% blame the EU". This comment from one o the linked discussions sums it up well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29529190 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29529190

And yet it's been 7 years and the banners still exist.

illiarian 3y ago

Because the industry doesn't want to give up on tracking and siphoning user data.

devnullbrain 3y ago
7 years of complaining about it hasn't changed that. Do you think another 7 years will be more effective? Alternatively, the EU could change the laws. Or enforce the existing ones.
- illiarian 3y ago
  > 7 years of complaining about it hasn't changed that. Funnily how "7 years of complaining" was, and continues to be, only about the EU. Not about the predatory businesses creating these banners (often in direct violation of GDPR). > Or enforce the existing ones. That's definitely the biggest criticism you can level at EU: they are too slow in enforcing this. I think the tide is very slowly changing. First they started showing reject buttons https://noyb.eu/en/where-did-all-reject-buttons-come https://noyb.eu/en/where-did-all-reject-buttons-come There's a report on the cookie banners in the works: https://noyb.eu/en/data-protection-authorities-support-noybs-call-fair-yesno-cookie-banners https://noyb.eu/en/data-protection-authorities-support-noybs... etc.
  - devnullbrain 3y ago
    >was, and continues to be, only about the EU. Not about the predatory businesses creating these banners https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17679596 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17679596 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25457469 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25457469 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30982470 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30982470 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23090393 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23090393 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29529062 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29529062 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19381063 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19381063 All of these links have comments against this sentiment.
    - illiarian 3y ago
      I will admit that there's also a slowly grown understanding of where the cookie banners come from, so it's not "100% blame the EU". This comment from one o the linked discussions sums it up well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29529190 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29529190