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What is the irony about? All I can see is a non-intrusive banner with a clear button to "accept only essential" which is all I care about.

by Rygian 3y ago

paxys 3y ago
Why does a website whose sole job it is to communicate official EU news need to collect and handle user data at all? The answer is likely that the firm in charge of the site themselves can't make sense of GDPR, and included the prompt by default like everyone else does, making the whole thing pointless and leading to nothing but visual pollution.
- LelouBil 3y ago
  From : https://commission.europa.eu/cookies-policy_en#howdoweusecookies https://commission.europa.eu/cookies-policy_en#howdoweusecoo... > How do we use cookies? > European Commission websites mostly use “first-party cookies”. These are cookies set and controlled by the Commission, not by any external organisation. > However, to view some of our pages, you will have to accept cookies from external organisations. > The 3 types of first-party cookie we use are to: > store visitor preferences > make our websites operational > gather analytics data (about user behaviour) and below : > Analytics cookies > We use these purely for internal research on how we can improve the service we provide for all our users. > The cookies simply assess how you interact with our website – as an anonymous user (the data gathered does not identify you personally). > Also, this data is not shared with any third parties or used for any other purpose. The anonymised statistics could be shared with contractors working on communication projects under contractual agreement with the Commission. > However, you are free to refuse these types of cookies – either via the cookie banner you’ll see on the first page you visit or at Europa Analytics. So they understood GDPR very well, because they are requiring consent for *non essential cookies* and they are *making the "no" as easy to click on as the "yes"*
  - paxys 3y ago
    So why does the banner pop up every time I open the site even if I explicitly decline non essential cookies?
    - jabradoodle 3y ago
      It only asks me once, I assume your deleting your cookies somehow.

What is the irony about? All I can see is a non-intrusive banner with a clear button to "accept only essential" which is all I care about.

by Rygian 3y ago

What is the irony about? All I can see is a non-intrusive banner with a clear button to "accept only essential" which is all I care about.

paxys 3y ago

Why does a website whose sole job it is to communicate official EU news need to collect and handle user data at all? The answer is likely that the firm in charge of the site themselves can't make sense of GDPR, and included the prompt by default like everyone else does, making the whole thing pointless and leading to nothing but visual pollution.

LelouBil 3y ago
From : https://commission.europa.eu/cookies-policy_en#howdoweusecookies https://commission.europa.eu/cookies-policy_en#howdoweusecoo... > How do we use cookies? > European Commission websites mostly use “first-party cookies”. These are cookies set and controlled by the Commission, not by any external organisation. > However, to view some of our pages, you will have to accept cookies from external organisations. > The 3 types of first-party cookie we use are to: > store visitor preferences > make our websites operational > gather analytics data (about user behaviour) and below : > Analytics cookies > We use these purely for internal research on how we can improve the service we provide for all our users. > The cookies simply assess how you interact with our website – as an anonymous user (the data gathered does not identify you personally). > Also, this data is not shared with any third parties or used for any other purpose. The anonymised statistics could be shared with contractors working on communication projects under contractual agreement with the Commission. > However, you are free to refuse these types of cookies – either via the cookie banner you’ll see on the first page you visit or at Europa Analytics. So they understood GDPR very well, because they are requiring consent for *non essential cookies* and they are *making the "no" as easy to click on as the "yes"*
- paxys 3y ago
  So why does the banner pop up every time I open the site even if I explicitly decline non essential cookies?
  - jabradoodle 3y ago
    It only asks me once, I assume your deleting your cookies somehow.