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The only thing the cookie law has accomplished for users, is pestering everyone with endless popups (full of dark patterns). WWW is pretty much unbearable to us
by encom 1y ago
The only thing the cookie law has accomplished for users, is pestering everyone with endless popups (full of dark patterns). WWW is pretty much unbearable to use without uBlock filtering that nonsense away. User tracking and fingerprinting has moved server side. Zero user privacy has been gained, because there's too much money to be made and the industry routed around this brain dead legislation.
- red_trumpet 1y ago> User tracking and fingerprinting has moved server side. This smells like a misconception of the GDPR. The GDPR is not about cookies, it is about tracking. You are not allowed to track your users without consent, even if you do not use any cookies.
- whatevaa 1y agoLogin is tracking, even when login is functional, not for tracking. Laws are analyzed by lawyers and they will err on side of caution, so you end up with these notices.
- sublimefire 1y agoCookies and crossdomain tracking is slightly different to a login. Login would occur on one platform and would not track you when you go on to amazon or some porn site or read infowars. But crossdomain cookies do not need auth and they are everywhere because webmasters get paid for adding them, they track you everywhere.
- sublimefire 1y agoWell in my case I just do not use those websites with an enormous amount of “partners” anymore. Cookie legislation was great because it now shows you how many businesses are ad based, it added a lot of transparency. It is annoying only because you want the shit for free and it carries a lot of cookies usually. All of the businesses that do not track beyond the necessary do not have that issue with the cookie banners IMO. GDPR is great for users and not too difficult to implement. All of the stuff related to it where you can ask the company what data they hold about you is also awesome.