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And the EU, rather than doing this, enacted their dumb 'cookie law' which, as far as I can tell, has just meant every UK website now has unnecessary cluttery po
by tfgg 12y ago
And the EU, rather than doing this, enacted their dumb 'cookie law' which, as far as I can tell, has just meant every UK website now has unnecessary cluttery popups telling you that they're using cookies.
- thomasfoster96 12y agoI'm pretty sure a sizeable number of non-EU based sites added cookie popups as well. Cookie popups were stupid - cookies aren't really an opt-in system. DNT should have been an opt-out system for off-site tracking. If Facebook tracks you through a like button or Google tracks you through an ad/analytics after you sent then a DNT header, they get into trouble. Maybe the header size effect DNT could have been mitigated by not sending it to sites with the same origin as the current page (or another origin policy that the website specifies).
- rb12345 12y agoThat was around before DNT (just). Given that the popups were required in any case and are site-specific acceptance, why bother with DNT? It was more work to implement for zero benefit. Admittedly that also applies to the popups, but those were less optional.