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cudder | 7 months ago

That is such a silly stupid thing in the GDPR consent.

- "Please don't track me."

- "But what if we realllly want to?"

A normal response to that would be an even more resounding FCK NO, but somehow the EU came to the completely opposite conclusion.

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indigo945|7 months ago

Claiming tracking cookies as "necessary" is often illegal under the GDPR. This is an enforcement problem, not a problem with the law itself, or the EU.

"Necessary" means "necessary for fulfilment of the contract". Your name and address are necessary data when you order off Amazon, your clickstream is not.

lazide|7 months ago

If the content is free, monetizing you is clearly necessary (/s, kinda)

mr_toad|7 months ago

Necessary means necessary to add it to the page for the project manager to collect their annual bonus.

eitland|7 months ago

Please show me where GDPR says this.

I think you'll find that GDPR says the opposite and the only reason this continues to happen is because authorities don't have enough resources to go after every at the same time and also because European authorities have a hard time against US companies.