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My problem is that GDPR/Cookie laws don't go far enough. If you can get out of the law by showing an obnoxious banner, it's not helping anyone. It should just b
by earthboundkid 3y ago
My problem is that GDPR/Cookie laws don't go far enough. If you can get out of the law by showing an obnoxious banner, it's not helping anyone. It should just be illegal to use behavior data to show ads to people, period. We had a systems that worked for 100 years based on general demographics, and they worked fine. Show me an ad based on the fact hat I'm reading TechCrunch, not based on the fact that I was Googling "broken lawnmower hand reach blade bolt safe??" two minutes ago.
- kmeisthax 3y agoThe obnoxious banner doesn't actually get you out of the law, in the same way that putting "no copyrights intended" into a YouTube video description does not make your reupload of Family Guy funny moments legal.
- josephg 3y agoYep. The frustrating part is the cookie banners aren't needed during regular operation in order to comply with the law. When cookies are used for login you don't need to pester the user to consent to their use. (Consent is implied when the user logs in.) Cookie banners are only needed when the website is doing something a bit dodgy - like behavior tracking for ads. Unfortunately, odious stuff is so ubiquitous that people think the banners must be necessary, and they blame the EU for insisting on popups instead of blaming the adtech companies for vomiting their crap into every website.