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Ask HN: What's going on with all the new cookie warnings?
Last week or so I've been noticing a ton of new approval requests for using cookies on large web sites (BBC, Google, and similar). It's all on my existing browser profile so cookies would have been accepted a long time ago.
Are other people noticing this as well or is it just me? Is there any new significant legislation that's causing this?
- antocv 12y agoIts not your web-browser that is asking you for that cookie shit, its the websites themselves implementing shit with javascript, css and html. They do this because the EU put out a directive ordering basically every website which operates in the EU to do so. To tell the visitors that in fact they are storing "data" on your gasp computer maybe without your consent. There is no way around it, as each websites implements it differently you cant just block it, thanks to the fucking EU for ruining parts of the web.
- adzicg 12y agobut this has been around for a while, and I probably already accepted this a long time ago on all those sites. last week or so many sites I visit regularly started asking for another cookie approval, so I'm wondering whether there is some new regulation causing this to happen again.
- idunno246 12y agocalifornia also has some of these laws, enacted early this year though
- InclinedPlane 12y agoLegal changes in the EU, which have actually been in place since 2012.
- sauere 12y agoIt's the EU. After they have regulated the "curvature quality standards for cucumbers" (this isn't a joke, see http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:31988R1677&from=EN http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX...) they needed something new to justify their job, so now they are doing all sorts of "we da internet naoo" regulation, including this cookie madness.
- why-el 12y agoDepends where you are, and I am guessing the EU, since I came back from vacation from the US back to Germany and I was treated with lots of warnings, especially from the BBC.
- pkinsky 12y agoIt means: 'we've already added a cookie to your browser, please click 'accept' so we don't get sued'