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This has only a little to do with the cookie directive which I agree is stupid. Why are you using this as a straw man to defend google?

• JohnTHaller 13y ago
  It's one of the points mentioned in the report on Google. It's one of the reasons they are being fined. And the cookie directive is an incredibly stupid idea floated by people who don't understand technology.
  • gress 13y ago
    Sure it's stupid, but the other reasons are not, so encouraging google to fight the whole thing because of the stupidity of the cookie directive is to gloss over the issue.
    • JohnTHaller 13y ago
      Perhaps they shouldn't be harping on the point about the cookie directive with equal weight then, as they are. It's as if they have an equally asinine rule that footers must be blue and Google's footer were red. Even if the other 3 points are valid, they're undermined by having a nonsense point alongside them. A point that is incredible silly to any sane person alongside other points that require a more nuanced understanding of the issues is detrimental to the overall argument.
      • gress 13y ago
        Are you really claiming that the other points are less valid because they are contained in the same document as the point about the cookie directive?