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1. Your proposal is not enough for EU privacy law, so you'd still see banners. First-party tracking is still tracking and you still need a banner if you're goi
by jefftk 3y ago
1. Your proposal is not enough for EU privacy law, so you'd still see banners. First-party tracking is still tracking and you still need a banner if you're going to store any data on the client that is not "strictly necessary" for the user's request.
2. Your proposal gives a pretty crummy experience in cases where users do expect the site to store data on the client longer. For logins you're popping up a confusing banner, and for client-side only storage (shopping carts, preferences, work in progress) you're silently discarding people's work.
- jeremyjh 3y agoNo consent is required to store cookies required for the site to function. Login cookies, shopping carts etc are fine. The only reason websites display these banners is because they want to track you, and they rely upon misunderstandings like you are propagating to whitewash the request.
- warkdarrior 3y agoSites can function just fine without storing my shopping carts locally.
- jefftk 3y agoThey don't have to store the whole contents of your cart locally, but they need to store at least a token on your machine so they can remember that this cart is yours.
- jefftk 3y agoLogin cookies, yes: by entering the username and password the user is requesting that you log them in. Shopping carts, sort of: if they don't check out immediately and you keep the item in their cart (which they may want but didn't explicitly request) you're in violation: https://ec.europa.eu/justice/article-29/documentation/opinion-recommendation/files/2012/wp194_en.pdf https://ec.europa.eu/justice/article-29/documentation/opinio... Other things: it has to be "strictly necessary" which is a high bar and many things don't meet it. For example, implicitly learning your preferences from your behavior doesn't.