The problem with the cookie law wasn’t the concept of it, it was the EU’s failure to crack down on malicious compliance.
They should’ve revised the law to make it opt-out by default.
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wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Hey EU? Do you remember when you forced every website to ask for permission to store cookies and made the entire web immeasurably worse to use without in any way having a positive impact on people’s right to some fucking privacy?
Yeah.
grue@lemmy.world 1 day ago
rumba@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
If you make it opt out by default, They could just design the software to not let you enter the page unless you opt in. Often get the page opt out get a nice advertisement for the service.
Even using cookies to help with load balancing is a pain in the ass these days. There’s a fuck ton of legitimate reasons to use cookies, If you want to stop tracking, Make it illegal to track people and sell advertising data based on it.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 day ago
A massive number of people would just not engage with the website if that happened, and they’d give in very fast.
wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Agreed. The sentiment was fine, the execution terrible.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
What’s wrong with being able to opt out of cookies?
wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee 1 day ago
The following:
If companies are indulging in abusive use of cookies (or index DB, local storage, plugins or other things) then ban those abusive use of cookies and fine companies that transgress until they stop. The EU essentially caves to industry pressure and put the burden on the individual visitor, which just allowed the companies to make it very, very annoying to opt out. Have you noticed how ‘allow all’ is always a single click, but allow none isn’t, if the option exists at all? Regardless, those settings? Guess where they’re stored: Cookies. Which means that those of us who were already preventing local storage of data are now having to deal with those lovely “choices” over, and over and over. Every visit to youtube, every newspaper article we try to read.
This was not an improvement in my quality of life. And I doubt the practical efficacy to boot. Can’t track user behavior and Internet usage patterns by way of cookies anymore? Fingerprinting to the rescue.
lime@feddit.nu 2 days ago
you’ve never had to ask for permission to store cookies that are required for your site to work. you have to ask for permission for third party trackers to store cookies when people use your site. it’s just that web developers either can’t read or can’t live without letting google track their users’ every move.
KelvarIW@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
we both know it’s the second one :P