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European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying (www.techspot.com)
submitted 10 months ago by L4s to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What are you on about? The banners and cookie abuse should go

[–] laughterlaughter 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think what OP is saying that, yes, the cookie abuse should go for sure (I'm actually privvy of the "Legitimate interest" options.)

But that if websites want to track you, then they have to be transparent about it - hence the banners. Wanna track me? Ask me for permission. Is it annoying? Tough luck! Are you losing users because of it? Well, boo-hoo! Remove the tracking and there you go. No banner. Everyone happy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But the reality is, that is the reality right now. And unless something is done, its not going away

[–] laughterlaughter 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Correct. That's what OP is saying. If websites want to use tracking cookies, they'll have to deal with the consequence of being annoying to their visitors. I'm completely okay with that. Though I'd welcome an alternative.

If websites were nicer about it, I would consider being tracked. So, a small banner consistently saying "Hey can we track you?" in which the default answer is "no" when you hit escape (as opposed to "WE ARE USING COOKIES TO TRACK YOU!!! CLICK SETTINGS TO DISABLE THIS!"), then I might click "yes" every now and then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

To quote republicans, if "ifs" and "buts" were candy and nuts, every day would be Xmas. There's no way that'll ever hold. Just like there's no way video game companies will be less greedy, or box other corporation