Look, EU, it is difficult to take you seriously when you forced all this cookie notification bullshit on us. That feature a) should not exist and b) if it did, should be a BROWSER feature not "every website in the entire world now has to bother everyone forever about this stupid thing" blog.codinghorror.com/breaking…
Breaking the Web’s Cookie Jar
The Firefox add-in Firesheep caused quite an uproar a few weeks ago, and justifiably so. Here’s how it works: * Connect to a public, unencrypted WiFi network.Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror)
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Cassandrich
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in reply to Jeff Atwood • • •True, but my point remains. This shitty experience we're collectively having here this isn't "the EU forcing cookie notification on people", it's "the malicious compliance of companies that profit from user tracking."
Every company that shows you an cookie popup has made the choice to put a few fractions of pennies of possible future profit ahead of your experience.
gdpr.eu/cookies/
Cookies, the GDPR, and the ePrivacy Directive - GDPR.eu
Richie Koch (GDPR.eu)Jeff Atwood
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in reply to Jeff Atwood • • •@javier Websites that don't use cookies are not involved. Neither are websites that only use cookies that are _required_ for the website to function, e.g. session tokens.
It's only when you'd like to use cookies to track users and deliver personalized ads that you have to deal with this stuff.
It's a choice.
Most websites simply don't choose the privacy-friendly option.
Claudius
in reply to scy • • •@scy @javier one of the big problems nobody talks about: tech is largely only explained by entities who have no incentive to explain it *well*.
Google, Meta, large ad networks are all like "stupid EU makes us do Cookie banner".
While the actual regulation is actually pretty good. The regulation is basically "don't fuck around with user data. But if you do, you at least need to tell the user".