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"The site uses cookies. Actually it doesn't - you are not logged on and we don't need to maintain state. But our advertising partners, their partners, and their partner's partners all love to set tracking cookies. Click here to consent to three dozen cookies from around the globe."
A lot of people have the misconception that the EU cookie law applies to all cookies, but as the blog post correctly points out, that just isn't the case.
Not that I am pro-privacy invasion, I'm not, but I'm definitely anti-annoying-popups.
Can anyone familiar with the topic explain what distinguishes essential from non-essential cookies? GitHub gives the example of "those used by third-party analytics, tracking, and advertising services", but curious if the law defines some sort of bright line here.
If you block ad networks and analytics the site functions just fine -- they're not essential.
Beyond that there's probably some sort of "need to know" test to prevent convoluted fake dependencies.
If they've gotten rid of 3rd party analytics, does this mean they're just using their own? Presumably session cookies count as "required", and could be used to track your actions at least on github.com.
A session cookie that is also used for tracking would qualify as both a functional and a tracking cookie, and thus generally be illegal (since you can't consent to the tracking if it's under the threat of being unable to use the service).
A lot of people have the misconception that the EU cookie law applies to all cookies, but as the blog post correctly points out, that just isn't the case.
True. Also even if you do track your visitors you can use privacy friendly (and ideally selfhostable) Analytics like Plausible https://plausible.io/ so you won't need the banners either. Just don't include facebook like buttons or any of these widgets
I assume that means a lower ad revenue and lower quality analytics. I wager they did a study and found the benefits of removing the dialogs outweigh the costs. Cookie dialogs are indeed horrible and out of control. Good on them for making the jump. But I doubt many others can justify the cost associated with the change. We need a better solution that gives users choice but reduce the friction caused by annoying promp…
A lot of people have the misconception that the EU cookie law applies to all cookies, but as the blog post correctly points out, that just isn't the case.
True. Also even if you do track your visitors you can use privacy friendly (and ideally selfhostable) Analytics like Plausible https://plausible.io/ so you won't need the banners either. Just don't include facebook like buttons or any of these widgets
A lot of people have the misconception that the EU cookie law applies to all cookies, but as the blog post correctly points out, that just isn't the case.
Also, it only applies in the EU. You don't need to display any banners outside the EU. Not that I am pro-privacy invasion, I'm not, but I'm definitely anti-annoying-popups.
Do you have an authoritative source which i can show our team regarding this?