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I will repeat, again, what I say when I see people commenting about this with such bad take. It is the US companies that do this. The worst cookie banners all
by speeder 3y ago
I will repeat, again, what I say when I see people commenting about this with such bad take.
It is the US companies that do this. The worst cookie banners all come from US companies.
Examples: "Admiral" one of the biggest cookie banner company is from Florida. Their banner is absolutely annoying, made to trick you into consenting to be tracked.
Many USA healthcare sites, refuse to work entirely if you decline marketing tracking cookies (yes you read that correctly, healthcare sites kick you out if you want privacy about your health).
The crazy thing is, the law never said you must have a cookie banner, what the law says is: you are not allowed to spy on people, UNLESS they allow it explicitly. So USA companies that are not big on privacy for some reason, concluded that annoying cookie banners where is easy to accidentally give away your privacy is a great idea.
If your site doesn't track users, you don't need any banner, not even a disclaimer.
Just don't spy on people, and that is it. I wonder how people from USA can still claim with a straight face they are "the land of the free", when they aren't free to not be spied upon (by their own government even, as Snowden proved).
- aurareturn 3y agoWhat ends up happening is that every single commercial website out there automatically has a cookie banner to protect themselves. It wastes everyone's time. They're going to track regardless. The web is definitely worse today, post cookie prompts.