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This is misinformed. As many have said before: it's basically malicious compliance. They're supposed to be super annoying ... Instead of complying, they cho
by Insimwytim 2mo ago
This is misinformed.
As many have said before:
it's basically malicious compliance. They're supposed to be super annoying ... Instead of complying, they choose this obnoxious practice so they could continue ... monitoring every action a visitor does.
You don't need a cookie banner to be allowed to create Cookies. You only need them if you're using them for something like tracking. [1]
Regulators didn't enforce cookie banners. Cookie banners are a form of malicious compliance. When you complain about them, you are doing the lobbying work of ad companies for free. The correct solution is to just not spy on people, and the problem is that the EU didn't go far enough and just ban the behavior altogether. [2]
Cookie pops are malicious compliance to regulations that legitimately protect consumers. You’ve cherry picked one bad side effect to throw out all the ways the EU is way ahead of anyone else in protecting consumers [3]
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29529148 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29529148
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38299135 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38299135
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46552795 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46552795
- YetAnotherNick 2mo agoWhy does static site of Europe's parliament need big cookie banner? Or is that the parliament which created this law doesn't know what you know or they are doing "malicious compliance". [1]: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/portal/en https://www.europarl.europa.eu/portal/en
- nonethewiser 2mo agoClearly they are just trying to rile up users against the EU.
- dijit 2mo agoBecause they want to track people and they need consent for that.
- YetAnotherNick 2mo agoI know the technical reason. I was contesting the GP's comment that most site display banner "Instead of complying". Most website needs basic tracking and there is nothing wrong in it. We are just conditioned to see it without difference in basic tracking and tracking all your clicks across site and selling it to advertisers.
- bulder 2mo agoBecause they use a commercial service (AT Internet) for analytics and visitor tracking as stated in their cookies policy and cookie inventory. This information is readily available through the cookie banner.
- Shuang1 2mo agoIf properly following a law is malicious, then it's a bad law. There's a reason you don't hear about people "maliciously complying" with HIPAA or PCI laws. Because that's just called compliance. No excuses for poorly done EU regulations.
- Arainach 2mo agoYou can comply with the law without banners and dark pattern defaults. These businesses are maliciously complying by making things more obnoxious and painful than they need to be. A comparison would be a store who was angry the law says you have to be 21 to buy alcohol and starts requesting everyone, even people not buying alcohol, to show ID or be kicked out. That's not a bad law, that's a bad business maliciously complying.