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You can, and I have, and it clearly requires almost any modern website to have a cookie banner. Which shouldn't be too surprising, when you go to gdpr.eu and s

You can, and I have, and it clearly requires almost any modern website to have a cookie banner. Which shouldn't be too surprising, when you go to gdpr.eu and see the cookie banner at the bottom. It's possible in principle to jump through the crazy hoops required to avoid it, but the only sites I've ever seen do so are national Data Protection Authorities.

account42 1y ago
Only if you define "almost any modern website" as one that does precisely what the GDPR set out to deal with. If tracking wasn't as widespread we wouldn't have needed the regulation in the first place.
- SpicyLemonZest 1y ago
  Tracking vs. non-tracking is not a distinction that the EU cookie rules recognize. A privacy respecting first-party analytics cookie, serving no other purpose than to let the website operator count how many distinct users visit a particular page, is still a not-strictly-necessary cookie which your users must provide informed consent for.
  - account42 1y ago
    > A privacy respecting first-party analytics cookie, serving no other purpose than to let the website operator count how many distinct users visit a particular page, is still a not-strictly-necessary cookie which your users must provide informed consent for. Yes because that's tracking.
hdgvhicv 1y ago
I see no cookie banners on this site.
- eviks 1y ago
  Ok, but others do.
  - hdgvhicv 1y ago
    On HN?
    - eviks 1y ago
      no, sorry, misunderstood you
- SpicyLemonZest 1y ago
  Because American websites often don't bother with preemptive GDPR compliance, and DPAs consider first-party cookies of small websites to be a pretty low enforcement priority. My browser shows four persistent cookies, one for news.ycombinator.com and three for .ycombinator.com, that definitely require GDPR consent. In particular note that merely keeping you logged in across browser sessions requires a cookie banner, because that persistence is not strictly essential to the site's functionality; the official GDPR explainer (https://gdpr.eu/cookies/ https://gdpr.eu/cookies/) calls this a "preferences cookie".
troupo 1y ago
> it clearly requires almost any modern website to have a cookie banner. It doesn't > when you go to gdpr.eu and see the cookie banner at the bottom. Imagine if you also read why they have it

account42 1y ago

Only if you define "almost any modern website" as one that does precisely what the GDPR set out to deal with. If tracking wasn't as widespread we wouldn't have needed the regulation in the first place.

SpicyLemonZest 1y ago
Tracking vs. non-tracking is not a distinction that the EU cookie rules recognize. A privacy respecting first-party analytics cookie, serving no other purpose than to let the website operator count how many distinct users visit a particular page, is still a not-strictly-necessary cookie which your users must provide informed consent for.
- account42 1y ago
  > A privacy respecting first-party analytics cookie, serving no other purpose than to let the website operator count how many distinct users visit a particular page, is still a not-strictly-necessary cookie which your users must provide informed consent for. Yes because that's tracking.

hdgvhicv 1y ago

I see no cookie banners on this site.

eviks 1y ago
Ok, but others do.
- hdgvhicv 1y ago
  On HN?
  - eviks 1y ago
    no, sorry, misunderstood you
SpicyLemonZest 1y ago
Because American websites often don't bother with preemptive GDPR compliance, and DPAs consider first-party cookies of small websites to be a pretty low enforcement priority. My browser shows four persistent cookies, one for news.ycombinator.com and three for .ycombinator.com, that definitely require GDPR consent. In particular note that merely keeping you logged in across browser sessions requires a cookie banner, because that persistence is not strictly essential to the site's functionality; the official GDPR explainer (https://gdpr.eu/cookies/ https://gdpr.eu/cookies/) calls this a "preferences cookie".

troupo 1y ago

> it clearly requires almost any modern website to have a cookie banner. It doesn't > when you go to gdpr.eu and see the cookie banner at the bottom. Imagine if you also read why they have it