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- I don't care about cookies: auto accepts all cookies
- Cookie AutoDelete: auto deletes all cookies
So now you can track me all you want... until I leave your website and all the cookies are gone (unless whitelisted).
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You mean like the "do not track" request header? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track It never ceases to amaze me the number of companies that "value" my privacy but still somehow ignore the do not track header.
Well, Microsoft kinda dropped the ball on that one by making it the default (although they later changed that).
Yeesh... 80 cookies on average for news sites! Down to 60... how many different ways do they need to track one person?
each ad network needs to track you separately. so most of those 60 cookies are not sending data to the news site, but rather to the ad network which bids to display the ad to you.
I could probably make a million dollars selling companies a "customer acquisition score" using phony baloney math if they place my script on their website.
On first visiting the site you are presented with the option to "Consent" or view more Options (where you can Opt Out of all - except you can't really because some require Opting Out on the specific Advertisers site). But if you do choose to Opt Out all, they will then show you the initial Option box on every visit to the site, where you have to go through the More Options route every time. And if you ever accidentally click I Consent, then they opt you back in to everything again and then never show you that option box ever again.
Note: I just picked on Mashable, but there are many, many sites following this same dark pattern.
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So they'd file suit in the EU and... what would happen? Some sort of judgment that would prevent a company from starting business in the EU at a later date?
I don't know. Why are EU companies paying attention to American laws, again?
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I honestly don't get why so many sites are even paying attention to GDPR. If they don't have a presence in the EU, it is irrelevant.
Because GDPR includes provisions for handling US GDPR violators, a lot of security vendors were touting up the idea that if a European fills out a form on your site or gets cookied for any reason, you could be sued.
The dark patterns in play now to get explicit consent are pretty bad now though. Take Mashable for example. On first visiting the site you are presented with the option to "Consent" or view more Options (where you can Opt Out of all - except you can't really because some require Opting Out on the specific Advertisers site). But if you do choose to Opt Out all, they will then show you the initial Option box on every v…
I'm glad the GDPR actually manages to enforce one of it's lesser talked about principals: data minimasation. What is worrying about this article is that it implies companies are using other, even less consensual ways of tracking users. Or maybe I'm reading too much into it.
That was my take on it as well: > In a September 2017 study of 250 US digital marketers by Viant, about 60% of respondents said they will no longer rely on cookies for the majority of their digital marketing within the next two years. The absence of any description about what they will use instead is frustrating.
I fucking hate GDPR policy making every website to show "Cookie Policy" ad pop modal. STOP. Every single time after I have accepted it, I come back the next day, I see the same modal again. I just accept it anyway, so stop. Stop this horrible UX. Sorry, but it really annoys the shit out of me. It does and I am pissed off every single time. If I accept, stop asking.