Cookie policy notifications have ruined user experience on the web
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Re: Cookie policy notifications have ruined user experience on the web
#2Do these notifications actually help with GDPR compliance or are they just a CYA for the websites?
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#3HA, this made it to the front page right as I was composing this Ask HN submission about picking a de facto standard element CSS class so that ad blockers could just start including a simple rule to get rid of them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17679932
Re: Cookie policy notifications have ruined user experience on the web
#4Do these notifications actually help with GDPR compliance or are they just a CYA for the websites?
they were around before GDPR:
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#5works for most:
javascript:(function()%7Bvoid([].forEach.call(document.querySelectorAll('body *'),e=>/fixed|sticky/.test(getComputedStyle(e).position)&&e.parentNode.removeChild(e)))%3Bdocument.body.style.overflow%3D'auto'%3Bdocument.body.style.height%3D'auto'%7D)()Re: Cookie policy notifications have ruined user experience on the web
#6then there's reddit and its giant full page ad for the app before finally redirecting me to the content once i find the tiny link to continue instead of opening the app store...
yes reddit and fb and gmail and the like are intentionally crippled when viewed on mobile. why? maybe because the data an app can suck up off your phone is much more valuable. no pesky same-origin policies!
i digress :(
Re: Cookie policy notifications have ruined user experience on the web
#7I'm a really big fan of geotargeting these notices only to the EU. If the EU wants cookie notices, give the EU cookie notices. Don't give anyone else cookie notices, because they're garish and few people reasonably care.
Re: Cookie policy notifications have ruined user experience on the web
#8Do these notifications actually help with GDPR compliance or are they just a CYA for the websites?
Definitely cover your ass, given how the fines are instant bankruptcy for a lot of companies.
I'm inclined to believe this + the cookie banners are also a lot of "well site X did it like that, we probably should do that as well" instead of reading and understanding the actual rules.
The easy way out would of course be to not violate the GDPR, but with 3rd party advertisers that's a bit painful.
I still don't know why big publishers don't just own the ads themselves, that is, have an ad department, have them approve ads and return statistics to the advertisers, have tracking all on the same domain, etc.
Re: Cookie policy notifications have ruined user experience on the web
#9I'm a really big fan of geotargeting these notices only to the EU. If the EU wants cookie notices, give the EU cookie notices. Don't give anyone else cookie notices, because they're garish and few people reasonably care.
But what if your geotargeting doesn’t work as expected, and has a few false negatives? Will that hold up in court?
Re: Cookie policy notifications have ruined user experience on the web
#10I'm a really big fan of geotargeting these notices only to the EU. If the EU wants cookie notices, give the EU cookie notices. Don't give anyone else cookie notices, because they're garish and few people reasonably care.
You can't do geotargetting here, because to perform geotargetting you need the user consent to use his location (which is a personal data ;) ) if he is european.