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The result is entirely predictable. They picked it.
No, the websites picked it. They consciously made cookie banners as annoying as possible so that you would give up and accept.
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> it’s well-understood that very few people actually read those things, they just want to get them out of the way. This is a jaw-drop moment for me every single time I observe someone else using the web and quickly clicking "accept" on every single cookie banners that pops up, without ever wasting a second even reading what they're accepting. It's mind boggling to me. Sure, I'm in IT, so surely I'm more aware of data…
It literally does not matter what you pick on these things - most of them don't work anyway. Think about it: Of course they don't. All the third-party javascript is already on the page. Anything you do inside the sandbox with UI provided by, usually, some other third-party, can't just magically force all that other code to behave in a specific way, unless someone has done a great deal of work to integrate the cookie…
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>It falls under the legitimate interest exception. What makes that a legitimate interest and not advertising?
Because preventing crime is drastically more important to having a functioning society than being able to target advertising slightly more accurately.
also some say it should be browser setting. Thye gonna piss on it, same as google piss on autoplay API setting on youtube (still autoplaying) 'bc their business model would hurt...'
> "around 3% actually want to be tracked online" 3% of people want to be tracked online? I think it's more likely that 3% of people misunderstood the survey question
https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and...
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I have it, it only seems to operate on maybe 60% of sites
Long time (former) user of consent-o-matic here and i concur, it doesn't seem to work on many sites these days. "I still don't care about cookies" works seamlessly so far. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/istilldontcar...
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You don't need cookies for basic aggregated analytics. Now if you want to track and record mouse movement, you do, and that's a privacy concern. The law really has nothing to do with cookies, it has to do with privacy, tracking, and PII. You can absolutely save preferences and perform analytics. What you can't do is hoard data that is personally identifiable for purposes that are not obvious to the consumer.
You need cookies if you simply want to run conversion analytics or any kind of performance marketing for media/ecommerce.