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EDIT: I didn't realize the anger this would bring out of people. It was supposed to be a funny meme based on recent real-life situations I've encountered, not an attack on the EU.

I appreciate the effort of the EU cookie laws. The practice of them just doesn't live up to the theory of the law. Shady companies are always going to find a way to be shady.

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[โ€“] DeriHunter 24 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Serious question: I know that there are tracking cookies and the user should be able to decline those,but most sites have an auth cookie that stores you're credentials. The devs can store it in a different place like local storage but thats really unsecured.what can the devs do in this situation when the user decline all cookies?

[โ€“] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago

The EU is not stupid. They categorized cookies into the necessary ones for site-usage and those that aren't. So developers just categorize their session cookie (rightfully) as necessary and that's it.

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