There is cookie banners in the US and canada
Analysis of economic and productivity losses caused by cookie banners in Europe
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Re: Analysis of economic and productivity losses caused by cookie banners in Europe
#172the angle of wasted productivity on the end-user's side seems ridiculous. If anything, count wasted resources in implementation for little gain for the end-user.
"Assuming it takes an average of 5 seconds per interaction with a cookie banner".
People don't spend 5 seconds clicking accept. They start reading their website, notice the banner in their periphery shortly after, and click it to go away.
Re: Analysis of economic and productivity losses caused by cookie banners in Europe
#173Hop into your uBlock Origin settings and enable the Cookie Banner filters. Fixed. Enable the Annoyances filters too, while you're in there. If you're on iOS, the Kill Sticky bookmarklet does a decent job of cleaning these up without breaking most sites: https://www.smokingonabike.com/2024/01/20/take-back-your-web...
Since when do bookmarklets work on iOS? How exactly do I use that?
I just figured it out. You bookmark a normal website. Then you go to your bookmarks and edit the new entry you created; you can then change the URL to the javascript code. Finally, to activate the bookmarklet you have to tap on the address bar and then manually browse to the bookmark entry (it doesn’t work if you just type its name in the address bar and press Go, or if you select it from the suggestions list).
Re: Analysis of economic and productivity losses caused by cookie banners in Europe
#174If websites respected Do Not Track then things would be a lot easier. I think we need a right to be listened to. Right now it's enough online to insist on only accepting information in one particular way, like having a noreply email and making people login and submit since shitty web form to respond. Putting your hands over your ears and tape over your mail slot doesn't work in real life, it shouldn't work on the web…
I agree with you 100%, but to be ideologically consistent, we should admit that websites have as much of a right to ignore Do Not Track as we have to ignore their tracking scripts.
Websites aren't human.
Re: Analysis of economic and productivity losses caused by cookie banners in Europe
#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
While I appreciate your workarounds, the issue is not fixed. Almost everyone is going to keep clicking these stupid banners. It’s not okay, it’s not fixed until the rules are adjusted and we have less tracking and’s less pointless banners.
So remove the consent exception against tracking? Simply make it illegal, banner or no?
It’s not a tracking banner but a cookie banner and some applications have a legitimate need for cookies. They abuse what is legitimate, but you can’t ask regulators to check every site without a national (European?) white liste firewall (shouldn’t give them ideas…).
Also, most tracking used to use cookies but if that becomes illegal there’s others ways.
Re: Analysis of economic and productivity losses caused by cookie banners in Europe
#176Re: Analysis of economic and productivity losses caused by cookie banners in Europe
#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
So remove the consent exception against tracking? Simply make it illegal, banner or no?
It’s not a tracking banner but a cookie banner and some applications have a legitimate need for cookies. They abuse what is legitimate, but you can’t ask regulators to check every site without a national (European?) white liste firewall (shouldn’t give them ideas…). Also, most tracking used to use cookies but if that becomes illegal there’s others ways.
Cookies necessary to function properly don't require consent. It's only optional ones (ones that benefit the site, not the user).
Re: Analysis of economic and productivity losses caused by cookie banners in Europe
#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
If they're doing that after you clicked Deny, the government can come down hard on them. Sadly, only the government - individuals can't sue companies for GDPR violations.
Article 79 [1] gives individuals a right to sue for GDPR violations. [1] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-79-gdpr/
That’s inspiring.
Let’s team up the pissed off individuals and raid-sue one of the obviously abusing. One is nothing, but that could at least make more visibility of the borderline legality. And at best we win and go to the next one.
Any law-worker?
Re: Analysis of economic and productivity losses caused by cookie banners in Europe
#179Misleading headline: It's productivity loss caused by non-essential data collection.
The EU does not mandate banners, it's the businesses choosing to bully their customers into accepting all tracking and profiling.
Re: Analysis of economic and productivity losses caused by cookie banners in Europe
#180Now count how much money and time is wasted loading all the spyware of typical commercial websites to generate a tiny value from selling ads and personally identifying information (the mobile data costs alone ...)