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I wonder what is the GDP cost of millions if not billions of people dismissing a cookie pop-up every day, often multiple times a day.
(... which, unfortunately, I guess wasn't "do no track" since that pretty much failed, right?)
I wonder what is the GDP cost of millions if not billions of people dismissing a cookie pop-up every day, often multiple times a day.
They could just run their own analytics tool and you wouldn't need any notice at all for basic visitor counting. But everybody is craving for that shiny numbers from Google Analytics (for mysterious reasons _perfectly_ integrated into all other Google tools), easy ad money and whatever metric marketing wants to see this month.
I wonder what is the GDP cost of millions if not billions of people dismissing a cookie pop-up every day, often multiple times a day.
And the fact that we need a browser extension to deal with such incredibly annoying and intrusive "functionality" that is required by law is just insane.
I wonder what is the GDP cost of millions if not billions of people dismissing a cookie pop-up every day, often multiple times a day.
We can all make silly arguments, just because something requires you to take action, and it might cost money, doesn't mean we therefore have to just let late stage capitalism run wild.
* You can't set all your cookies first, then ask permission.
* You can't set all your cookies whether the user accepts them or not.
* You can't tell users to stop using the website if they don't want cookies.
* You can't convince any business owner to follow the above rules.
Uncharitably, it's a way for the government to arbitrarily prosecute anyone they please.
Oh the irony of this site itself having a "we use cookies, got it?" banner while lamenting this exact perceived lack of choice. I always laugh a little when I see those anyway, knowing that my browser's settings and privacy extensions are blocking the cookies and tracking connections either way. Did we consider that if everyone is breaking the law, the law itself might need a rework?
Three years later, randomly enforced and generally ignored: should GDPR-for-anonymous-browsing be regarded as obsolete by the EU's courts?
After reading the abstract, it seems the authors try to classify cookies using a special browser extension called "CookieBlock" [1]. I hope they are successful, because I hate being tracked on the internet.
I doubt that very much. A lot of the indieweb sites don't bother collecting information about their users so they don't need to show information pop-ups nor worry about GDPR. I know I don't.
... especially if the log just grows and grows and never rotates. The GDPR is a very wide-reaching law.
Of course, there's no real need to worry since, practically speaking, it was intended as a cudgel to beat FAANG with and not a dagger to stab indies with. If you're comfortable with the safety of your operations being "The folks with legal power to enforce won't wield it on you", you have nothing to worry about.