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Obtrusive cookie banners are somewhere between malicious compliance or a sign of shady business practices. Now that I see it spelt out like this, they are alway
by gherkinnn 3y ago
Obtrusive cookie banners are somewhere between malicious compliance or a sign of shady business practices. Now that I see it spelt out like this, they are always a sign of scumbag companies.
- shp0ngle 3y agoThey are present even literally on the pages of the EU organs that proposed them. Go to European Commision page - bam, cookie banner.
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- troupo 3y agoCompare a clear "allow cookies/allow only essential" to the industry standard wall of "we care about your privacy, so we sell your data to thousands of trackers that you have to opt out of manually" Though yes, government services shouldn't use anything but essential cookies (for which you don't need a cookie popup)
- shp0ngle 3y agoThat's switching goalposts. You said only scammy businesses have cookie banners... no, all websites have cookie banners now in EU, and it's majorly annoying, unless you use extensions that click it for you. (The most popular one is owned by Avast. Which is a horrible company that sells users data. So... yay?)
- troupo 3y ago> You said only scammy businesses have cookie banners I didn't > all websites have cookie banners now in EU All the sites that collect more data than strictly necessary, yes. Here's an example of a website that spent need a cookie banner: https://github.blog/2020-12-17-no-cookie-for-you/ https://github.blog/2020-12-17-no-cookie-for-you/ > The most popular one is owned by Avast. Which is a horrible company that sells users data Indeed. This should tell you all you need to know about these cookie popups and companies that use Avast's, or IAB's or Admiral's cookie popups.