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Legislation by the EU is why the popups are there. It really is that simple.
by joenot443 2y ago
Legislation by the EU is why the popups are there. It really is that simple.
- latexr 2y agoThe popups are there because these websites are invading your privacy. It really is that simple. Or, to be fair to all parties, they are there because continuous abuse by the industry forced governmental action. Don’t invade user’s privacy and you don’t need cookie banners. Can’t get simpler than that. https://commission.europa.eu/resources-partners/europa-web-guide/design-content-and-development/privacy-security-and-legal-notices/cookies-and-similar-technologies_en https://commission.europa.eu/resources-partners/europa-web-g...
- simonsarris 2y agoI just got a banner from that EU website. Clearly they think it necessary, and they're not a business.
- latexr 2y agoThat is explained right at the top of the page: > Use of the cookie consent kit is mandatory on each page of the DGs and executive agencies-owned websites, regardless of the cookies used. Let’s please engage in good-faith conversation. If you don’t read a prominent explanatory banner with a blocky information icon at the top of an explanatory page, I don’t know what to tell you.
- unmole 2y agoYou said: > Don’t invade user’s privacy and you don’t need cookie banners. But when it's pointed out all EU websites use cookie banners, you shift goalposts and pretend that others are engaging in bad faith.
- latexr 2y ago> But when it's pointed out all EU websites use cookie banners Because you keep failing to read properly (and even had one comment flagged on the same subject), I’ll emphasise it this time: > Use of the cookie consent kit is mandatory on each page of the DGs and executive agencies-owned websites, regardless of the cookies used. Again: > regardless of the cookies used In case you still don’t understand, that means it doesn’t matter what type of cookies the EU websites use, they still have to show the banner even for cookies no one else has to show a banner for.
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- USiBqidmOOkAqRb 2y agoBy that train of thought alcohol and tobacco were harmless until nasty bureaucrats came along and demanded that things must be explicitly labeled. Website operators are anything but blameless.
- gruturo 2y agoDo you also blame your doctor for correctly diagnosing your illness?
- zmnd 2y agoIf a doctor diagnosed me with the same result every time I go to another room, yes I would.
- latexr 2y agoIt’s not the same illness, every website has different tracking. The analogy wasn’t perfect, but they seldom are.
- gruturo 2y agoSo for some reason you're visiting 20 doctors and they all tell you "I will resell all your personal information to as many buyers as I can find, including sketchy ones, and to insurance companies which may raise your premiums depending on what you discuss with me" (I know it's illegal, it's an example), and you're blaming the law forcing them to confess this and giving you a chance to opt out?
- ruthmarx 2y agoIt really is that simple. It's bizarre the way people try to blame companies engaging in legal activities for doing something the EU specifically requires them to do.