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Even well meaning bodies like TFL (Transport for London) have cookie warnings that impede the actual access of the website. Need to look up a bus time? Full sc
by tezza 2mo ago
Even well meaning bodies like TFL (Transport for London) have cookie warnings that impede the actual access of the website.
Need to look up a bus time? Full screen cookie consent with accept buttons drawn OFF THE SCREEN.
- inigyou 2mo agoThey obviously aren't well-meaning if they're endlessly tracking everything you do
- igregoryca 2mo agoSloppy, non-privacy-preserving "analytics" set up by some communications intern ≠ malice. They can mean well and still do a poor job. True privacy on the internet is notoriously hard.
- ehnto 2mo agoI don't think you can handwave responsibility like that, even if your theoretical were true it's still the responsibility of the org.
- 4thguy 2mo agoSorry, no. Code doesn't magically go from the intern's workstation to live. If the chain of incompetence is that long, then the most generous read is that they don't care
- igregoryca 2mo agoCould've been as simple as installing and configuring some off-the-shelf "analytics" and "cookie banner" plugins for their content management system. Unfortunately, the chain of incompetence is that long, because these orgs do not attract talent that understands these things.
- Jtarii 2mo agoMore likely it was designed by some firm that put the cookie banner there because "that is just what you do in current year"
- inigyou 2mo agoYes and my "peanut allergy friendly" cookies say "may contain peanuts" because that's just what you do
- debazel 2mo agoOne of our sites that don't use any kind of tracking or cookies other then a site preference cookie, got so many complaints that we had to put up a cookie banner that simply says "we do not use any tracking cookies"...
- inigyou 2mo agoWho complained what?
- debazel 2mo agoUsers complained that we were non-compliant with EU regulations due to the missing cookie banner. Because of the legal wording of these support tickets, the support team would often raise them to dev or legal as well, and since this is a non-revenue driving part of our business (the reason we don't track in the first place) we decided to just put up a cookie banner explaining why we don't need a cookie banner.
- albedoa 2mo agoLiterally the point is that sites are showing the banner by default practice even when they are not tracking. You understand this! Your kind comes into every one of these threads and says some version of "well if they weren't tracking then they'd have nothing to worry about and no need to show a banner", but that is so obviously not true to anyone who uses the web. You absolutely do not need to defend a law that is not working.