Comment on Accepting Cookies
BeUnique@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
That shit should be illegal. Accept all / reject all. That’s it. If somebody is disabling cookies, literally nobody in the entire world wants any of them! “Oh yeah, please, only keep my location data but not the data about my purchase decisions”…
WrathEnchanter@europe.pub 3 days ago
I have good news for you: In the EU (which forced everyone to have the cookie-accept-banners in the first place) it IS illegal.
rmuk@feddit.uk 3 days ago
The EU didn’t force anyone to have the cookie banners. If the site only uses nessecary cookies - the kind you can’t turn off in the prompt - there doesn’t need to any prompts because that’s perfectly fine. The intrusive, obnoxious and deliberate confusing popups are from data harvesters throwing a tantrum because they can’t stalk you every waking second any more, and complying in the most malicious and disrespectful way they can.
Cookie banners are nothing to do with the EU and everything to do with tech-bros.
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
The EU knew about DNT signals before GDPR was finalized and decided to ignore them. I know, I was a web dev at that time (and still am). This is on the EU and techbros, but having internet explorer disable all cookies by default would make tech bros upset, and the EU couldn’t have that, so they made the tech bros a little happier by allowing the consent banners instead.
www.greens-efa.eu/legacy/…/Pannetrat.pdf
WrathEnchanter@europe.pub 3 days ago
I mean… The EU could’ve also said ‘no privacy invasive cookies’ instead of ‘cookie Banner if privacy invasive cookies’. I don’t think being able to disable is bad, I think they didn’t go far enough (and also of course datapeople only comply in the most malicious way possible. It’s literally their job, a job that shouldn’t exist.)
bless@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Even the idea of tightening regulations for igaming has many EU countries frothing at the mouth, what makes you think that this didn’t start as “no privacy-invasive cookies?”
Magnum@infosec.pub 3 days ago
It is not fine, you still need to be informed and accept
rmuk@feddit.uk 3 days ago
If the cookies are nessecary for the site to technically function, you don’t need to be promoted to accept. The law - which doesn’t even mention cookies - allows the absolute minimum amount of data required to provide a service to be gathered. For a website, that included cookies for storing preferences, shopping baskets, login tokens, etc.
BeUnique@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
It was pretty crazy taking my phone from the United States to the EU and seeing all of the notifications of how my data is being shared by “free” apps! It just goes to show that the saying “if the product is free, you’re the product” is 100% true!