I have no idea why that field isn’t optional.
It is. But leaving it off means that the cookie will be removed when the browser is shut down.
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marcos@lemmy.world 6 months ago
There isn’t any reason for a site to limit the lifetime of most cookies. I have no idea why that field isn’t optional.
Get an extension that will erase the cookies that you don’t care about, do not abide by everything anybody on the web asks you for. And yeah, get an ad-blocker.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 6 months ago
hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
The EU ePrivacy directive and to a lesser extent the GDPR generally require that cookies have a limited lifetime depending on their function, to eg. prevent companies just attaching a stable identifier to every random passerby essentially forever.
Sunny@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
I’m not annoyed, I’m not using this VPN service, only doing research. However, I would appreciate it if you could link me to what you refer to with GDPR and ePrivacy setting a limited cookie lifetime!
hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Sure! This page has some general info: gdpr.eu/cookies/
The directive itself is kind of involved because it goes pretty deep into what its aim is and eg. what sort of information can be considers an identifier, and it’s actually quite well argued and worth a read if that sort of thing is your, er, thing: eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX… (you need to scoll aaalll the way down to be able to show the body text). I had to deal with this stuff professionally when I was a CTO for a company with some stricter than average privacy requirements due to the field, and I was pleasantly surprised to find out how much sense the ePrivacy and GDPR directives actually make
Sunny@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
Ayy thanks a lot for that, much appreciated! Have a great day 🌻
FMEEE@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Jes but the company showed in OPs Image is a cookie of a German company. Otto de is like a German Amazon. And it is a GmbH so it’s probably registered in Germany.
hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Which is why I said to contact the German DPA