Instead of hating the EU, how about directing your hate towards the bad players of the web? Cookie banners are not the fault of the EU, but the fault of companies disrespecting privacy rights and pushing data collection, ads and all possible shady growth hacking strategies towards the user. I am glad that a government body actually made this possible and made visible how horrible the internet is.
Sigh, this is what browsing the web in the EU looks like nowadays (2021)
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Re: Sigh, this is what browsing the web in the EU looks like nowadays (2021)
#22What could you possibly mean? Government made it so much better. How else would you know that the cookies (you're going to consent to anyway) are being put on your computer?
And it’s so easy, with the choice of one button to make things work like they always did, or a quick sixteen-part questionnaire and identity verification process if you want to submit a request to be considered for an alternative cookie delivery experience.
Re: Sigh, this is what browsing the web in the EU looks like nowadays (2021)
#23This isn't actually EU specific.
Re: Sigh, this is what browsing the web in the EU looks like nowadays (2021)
#24i liked how the reddit popup had nothing to do with cookie consent and the second site didnt have any popups at all - author could have cherry picked a bad example but for some reason gave us this?
If not for EU law the result would have been displayed inline immediately.
The Reddit one is just because of Reddit, not cookie consent.
Re: Sigh, this is what browsing the web in the EU looks like nowadays (2021)
#25A reminder that websites wouldn't need to do this if their intention wasn't to track you all over the internet.
It's google, facebook etc that are trying to shove these things down your throat, not the EU.
Re: Sigh, this is what browsing the web in the EU looks like nowadays (2021)
#26I think most of the comments here right now are missing the point of OP's post. It's not about one thing in particular (cookie consent), just that the whole ordeal is full of ads and popups (one of which is the cookie consent popup).
Most of this crap is the same everywhere, not just in the EU.
Re: Sigh, this is what browsing the web in the EU looks like nowadays (2021)
#27And think, if website operators chose to actually use the DoNotTrack signal from your browser, you wouldn't have such a terrible experience on their websites.
Wasn't there an incident where a browser shipped with DoNotTrack enabled by default, and thus the signal didn't actually mean the user explicitly enabled DNT themselves?
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Re: Sigh, this is what browsing the web in the EU looks like nowadays (2021)
#28Lately, I've been having developers and designers on my team install each of the three major browsers without plugins and visit five of the "top 10 media sites" (https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/news-and-media/), plus twitter, facebook and linkedin for a total of two hours so they see what the web looks like for regular users. It doesn't take long for people to realize just how terrible 25 years of accumulated surveillance, advertising and front-end cruft has made the web.
Re: Sigh, this is what browsing the web in the EU looks like nowadays (2021)
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Re: Sigh, this is what browsing the web in the EU looks like nowadays (2021)
#30To align incentives, maybe it's time we start paying for the web content we consume with money.