They’re terrible. Who are we kidding, no one has backed out of the website after seeing one of these notices.
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
#12Do these notifications actually help with GDPR compliance or are they just a CYA for the websites?
GDPR compliance requires opt-out, so cookie notifications are useless as far as compliance now. If you don't/can't comply, then you might as well not mention cookies at all - in both cases you're in breach of GDPR but at least you won't be ruining your UX.
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#13HA, 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
It'd be even better if my user agent could simply indicate my acceptance (or lack thereof) for me
Re: Cookie policy notifications have ruined user experience on the web
#14We wouldn't be having this discussion if cookies were opt-in rather than opt-out. I don't sign into 90% of websites I visit, but why are all of them allowed to track me? If cookies were opt-in, then the legal issue of "consent" would be cleanly resolved, and the interface can be handled by the user agent rather than through obtrusive modals.
Re: Cookie policy notifications have ruined user experience on the web
#15How ironic, websites have been breaking user experience for years by embedding always more trackers that took forever to load.
If a publisher doesn't want to display a GDPR notification to its users there's a simple trick : just don't collect and monetize personal informations!
Re: Cookie policy notifications have ruined user experience on the web
#16then 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 :(
Don't worry about trying to click the 'continue' link, just keep scrolling down and it disappears.
It's still annoying, but not as annoying as trying to click the tiny link.
Re: Cookie policy notifications have ruined user experience on the web
#17HA, 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
There is an adblock filter list for cookie warnings:
https://github.com/r4vi/block-the-eu-cookie-shit-list
Re: Cookie policy notifications have ruined user experience on the web
#18HA, 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
It'd be even better if my user agent could simply indicate my acceptance (or lack thereof) for me
This is what Do Not Track was supposed to be. Unfortunately it never got much momentum. Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. ignore the DNT header.
Re: Cookie policy notifications have ruined user experience on the web
#19I'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.
Is IP geolocation included in that? I'm genuinely curious, actually. That's how most websites do content filtering (even BBC iPlayer uses server side geolocation to filter people out).
Re: Cookie policy notifications have ruined user experience on the web
#20HA, 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
It'd be even better if my user agent could simply indicate my acceptance (or lack thereof) for me
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