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Question : how do you remembers that users say no without cookie?
by Nikkau 14y ago
Question : how do you remembers that users say no without cookie?
- mapleoin 14y agoI think the assumption is that you don't do any tracking by default and then the first cookie you set is to allow you to set other cookies in the future. The ICO would have website owners pop up a box to new users asking them to give consent to using cookies.
- wardenclyffe 14y agoThe ICO would have website owners pop up a box to new users asking them to give consent to using cookies. Which if they refuse has to create a cookie so that their selection is remembered. (Edited for clarity)
- mapleoin 14y agoHah, ok. I got it now. That's funny.
- wardenclyffe 14y agoI know, it's inspired.
- robin_reala 14y agoThe current best-practise guidance[1] suggests that you split your cookies up into 4 types: essential, performance, functionality and tracking. All types should be selectable, but the first three could be opt-out by default as long as you display a notice. Only tracking cookies need be opt-in, and I’m fine with that. BT have a nice implementation of this, or at least would have if they’d turned off tracking cookies by default (hah). I assume that their code flexible enough that they can do this on the deadline. Look at the bottom right of http://www.bt.com/ http://www.bt.com/ (or any page on the same domain). [1] http://www.international-chamber.co.uk/components/com_wordpress/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/icc_uk_cookie_guide.pdf http://www.international-chamber.co.uk/components/com_wordpr...
- toyg 14y agoAfter you log them on, you can set a cookie for session management (it's allowed) and use that to remember a preference stored in your db (which you can get by default on registration). If you can't log them on, well... I guess you should try to guess their country, and if it's UK, you don't track. This is another case of well-intentioned but probably unenforceable legislation by our detached European elites.
- dalore 14y agoYou remember the ones who say yes. As for the ones who say no, you ask them every time until they say yes. So I guess the system works.
- jamiecurle 14y agoWhat you're suggesting sounds like a dark pattern to me.
- ars 14y agoHe's joking. But like all good jokes there's an element of truth since I suspect that's exactly what some websites will do.
- arctangent 14y agoHe's not joking. Take a look at what the ICO themselves do - they show a consent box at the top of every page unless and until you opt in: http://www.ico.gov.uk/ http://www.ico.gov.uk/