Please stop putting cookie pop-ups on your website (2022)
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Please stop putting cookie pop-ups on your website (2022)
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Re: Please stop putting cookie pop-ups on your website (2022)
#2>"Almost every major website you visit today pops up a banner to warn you that it uses “cookies.” This is not legally required in the U.S. or in most places, and where it is, the vast majority of sites do not comply with legal requirements."
Re: Please stop putting cookie pop-ups on your website (2022)
#3Interesting article. This policy has felt like a complete failure, but I didn't know the depths of how badly it has failed.
I would really like to see these die. Regulators should just work with browser vendors to make an API that I can set at the browser level, and websites just read that to know my preferences and leave me alone.
Re: Please stop putting cookie pop-ups on your website (2022)
#4So... Abolish all the EULAs?
Re: Please stop putting cookie pop-ups on your website (2022)
#5Please stop - selling our data to advertisers.
Re: Please stop putting cookie pop-ups on your website (2022)
#6The larger lesson here is this is what happens when governments try to regulate things they don't understand. Cookie popups just add friction, and it's not clear consumers see any real privacy benefit. What's even worse is people seem to not care that the policy isn't working, but they aren't telling lawmakers to fix it.
Re: Please stop putting cookie pop-ups on your website (2022)
#7The cookie policy is a stupid value-signalling stunt with only negative real-life effects. The correct way of handling the problem would have been through request headers and browser settings, or simply, use the existing option of either allowing or disallowing cookies, and put this option on a per-site basis and a bit more into the users face..
Re: Please stop putting cookie pop-ups on your website (2022)
#8Interesting article. This policy has felt like a complete failure, but I didn't know the depths of how badly it has failed. I would really like to see these die. Regulators should just work with browser vendors to make an API that I can set at the browser level, and websites just read that to know my preferences and leave me alone.
Your preferences should be on the website level though, not global. And you should be asked about it on first visiting the website.
Let me explain why with an example: say you're the type of people who doesn't care about "privacy" online ("I've got nothing to hide"), or you do; and you want to "support " certain ad-supported websites you're a fan of; but not that new clickbait toilet paper your aunt sends you.
I can't think of any way to have a good UX to opt in or out of "tracking" cookies which people would actually use (few will bother changing the defaults, and most mindlessly click ok).
Re: Please stop putting cookie pop-ups on your website (2022)
#9Also, for those of us with vision issues (or just want to zoom in a lot on a webpage), these popups look horrible at 150%-200%, and often get misrendered in strange ways, sometimes hiding the button. Then if you actually try to reject it, if you can, the rejecting or customizing page is nearly always broken when zoomed in.
Re: Please stop putting cookie pop-ups on your website (2022)
#10The larger lesson here is this is what happens when governments try to regulate things they don't understand. Cookie popups just add friction, and it's not clear consumers see any real privacy benefit. What's even worse is people seem to not care that the policy isn't working, but they aren't telling lawmakers to fix it.
The lawmakers regulated that a website should warn you, and then upgraded to ask for your consent, before collecting and storing privately identifiable information about you.
The regulation doesn't mention cookie popups. The easiest way to comply is to not collect nor store any such information.