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> the EU regulation that forced these cookie acceptance forms No such regulation has ever existed in the EU.
by denton-scratch 3y ago
> the EU regulation that forced these cookie acceptance forms
No such regulation has ever existed in the EU.
- Rygian 3y agoThat's correct. The regulation is about providing consent to process personal data. Many people fail to see the difference.
- jeremyjh 3y ago> Many people fail to see the difference. By design. The prompt wants you to think the site only needs your permission to store necessary cookies such as for authentication, when in fact it is always because they want to track you and sell the tracking data.
- kevin_thibedeau 3y agoThere was a cookie law prior to GDPR. That's when the obtrusive dialogs started showing up.
- ApolloFortyNine 3y agoNon tracking ads pay something like 90% less than tracked ones. If your salary was going to be cut 90% tomorrow unless you started every conversation with the exact words 'I might remember this conversation later', would you just take the paycut? So no, they didn't require them in plain text. But they essentially did so when the only real alternative was to go out of business.