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ajimix | 5 years ago

Contact the EU and tell them to remove that non-sense rule as it makes the internet waste time clicking annoying things that nobody reads or cares.

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petepete|5 years ago

This is ad companies dragging their heels and making the UX as bad as possible. It's clearly a good tactic because you're now blaming the EU instead of the ones tracking your every move.

mdrachuk|5 years ago

Just disable cookies in the browser if you don’t want to send them.

happymellon|5 years ago

On the contrary. I love it, because now it is illegal for me to be tracked without my consent (and my not clicking on decline is not consent), which is why American news sites block EU IPs because they can't just data mine me without my knowledge.

number6|5 years ago

Works as intended. It's not the regulators task to put the law in a nice UX.

alpaca128|5 years ago

But it could have been solved so much better, for example via the browser using the same UI as the location tracking. Then again we already have that with the "do not track" flag and that doesn't really work without real consequences.

belorn|5 years ago

Lets imagine the EU making a law that has nothing about cookies, but instead focus on personal data and when it may be collected and when it may not be collected. The law may not even need to mention cookies except as one of many examples, like a radio frequency identification tag. The focus of the law can instead be about why someone is collecting personal data, and what the purpose is.

The law could say something like: If you are collecting data in order to create an profile of a person, and the person did not ask you to do a job which require such profiling, then you must ask for permission.

Nothing about cookies, nothing about a popup, just intention and consent. And here come the surprise. That is current GDPR. It mention cookies exactly once, as part of an non-exhausted example list of identifiers which is commonly used in order to profile people. Cookies has the same importance in GDPR as profiling a person based on what screen resolution your device has, and you may notice that there are no screen-resolution-accept-banners anywhere.

Xelbair|5 years ago

EU requires consent notice for non-essential cookies only. So mostly for advertising purposes.

euisdumb|5 years ago

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Nextgrid|5 years ago

And in the meantime we have healthcare that doesn't bankrupt you if you need to go to the ER, affordable education, and better consumer protection laws among other things. Oh, and a police force that in average doesn't kill as many people as the US one does.