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I have one suggestion for you: stop blaming everyone else. The law itself is just fine. It's insufficient in itself, but so is the law making theft illegal. I
by rickmb 14y ago
I have one suggestion for you: stop blaming everyone else.
The law itself is just fine. It's insufficient in itself, but so is the law making theft illegal.
If you use Google Analytics and third party social widgets, you're aiding and abetting, you're aiding and abetting companies that violate people's privacy rights on a massive scale. You choose to do so, so you should accept the consequences and the responsibility instead of pointing the finger to everyone else.
As an industry, we've had over a decade to fix this problem until the politicians finally took action. We, Silktide include, have not only done fuck all to solve the problem, we've participated in making is massively worse by putting Google Analytics and Facebook like-buttons on every site we put our hands on.
The politicians you're ridiculing are at least trying to fix the mess we created. We took a dump on privacy rights, and are now bitching about how bad politicians are in cleaning it up.
You really think they're going to listen to us as long as we keep acting like spoiled children with zero sense of responsibility?
- oliveremberton 14y ago"We, Silktide include [sic], have not only done fuck all to solve the problem" You mean apart from creating the most popular, free, open source solution for complying with the law? http://silktide.com/cookieconsent http://silktide.com/cookieconsent Or proposing alternative solutions that might actually work: http://blog.silktide.com/2012/09/fixing-a-broken-cookie-law/ http://blog.silktide.com/2012/09/fixing-a-broken-cookie-law/ Or creating a free information site to help people comply? http://silktide.com/cookielaw http://silktide.com/cookielaw Or debating the nuances of how the law might be interpreted for the past 18 months? http://blog.silktide.com/2011/05/cookie-law-makes-most-uk-websites-illegal-what-you-need-to-know/ http://blog.silktide.com/2011/05/cookie-law-makes-most-uk-we... http://blog.silktide.com/2011/05/can-we-use-analytics-with-the-new-uk-cookie-law/ http://blog.silktide.com/2011/05/can-we-use-analytics-with-t... http://blog.silktide.com/2012/02/cookie-law-analytics-are-illegal-but-we-wont-prosecute-you-probably/ http://blog.silktide.com/2012/02/cookie-law-analytics-are-il... I'm hardly alone in my opinion of this law. Read any number of technical or legal opinions on the matter: Wired - http://bit.ly/lJQs4x http://bit.ly/lJQs4x The Guardian - http://bit.ly/mQKOnv http://bit.ly/mQKOnv OutLaw - http://bit.ly/6VZgd http://bit.ly/6VZgd TechCrunch - http://tcrn.ch/JC15c3 http://tcrn.ch/JC15c3 and they're virtually unanimous: this law is a total clusterfuck.