Sick of cookie banners and popups? They’re all changing, again
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Re: Sick of cookie banners and popups? They’re all changing, again
#2This is a good thing. And there's probably still some way to go with this. A step-by-step approach makes sense to me. Sure it's a nuisance for developers (although I'm certainly not complaining about the extra work) but it's better for users to see regular progress regarding their privacy. Surveillance capitalism has gone a bit crazy over the last decade and lawmakers are steadily reeling it back in. I fully support the ICO's recommendations
Re: Sick of cookie banners and popups? They’re all changing, again
#3This is nothing new. These guidelines reflect the GDPR’s intent and everyone had 2 years to prepare for it before it went into effect.
Re: Sick of cookie banners and popups? They’re all changing, again
#4Their infographic is hilarious: https://silktide.com/images/uploads/images/Cookie-Law-infogr...
But I can't see this changing in the medium term without some high-profile fines; someone needs to fine a major media company or similar simply for having Google analytics enabled. Then everyone will shout about their world collapsing, and try to find new forms of allowed dark pattern.
Really the only way to get out ahead of this mess would be to "lean in" and make a browser-level technological mechanism for providing consent. Maybe standardise the "session cookie" somehow, so all the required functionality can hang off that.
Re: Sick of cookie banners and popups? They’re all changing, again
#5This is nothing new. These guidelines reflect the GDPR’s intent and everyone had 2 years to prepare for it before it went into effect.
They are in effect and everyone breaks them. I guess we need to wait for first "cookie" fine for any panic/changes to happen.
Re: Sick of cookie banners and popups? They’re all changing, again
#6Their infographic is hilarious: https://silktide.com/images/uploads/images/Cookie-Law-infogr... But I can't see this changing in the medium term without some high-profile fines; someone needs to fine a major media company or similar simply for having Google analytics enabled. Then everyone will shout about their world collapsing, and try to find new forms of allowed dark pattern. Really the only way to get out ahead…
> But I can't see this changing in the medium term without some high-profile fines
I'm counting on the German cease-and-desist industry to kick-start that - now that I think about it, I'm actually surprised it has happened yet.
Re: Sick of cookie banners and popups? They’re all changing, again
#7There is a setting for Google Analytics which makes it pinky promise to not store too much information and with that setting you don’t need banners.
Re: Sick of cookie banners and popups? They’re all changing, again
#8Their infographic is hilarious: https://silktide.com/images/uploads/images/Cookie-Law-infogr... But I can't see this changing in the medium term without some high-profile fines; someone needs to fine a major media company or similar simply for having Google analytics enabled. Then everyone will shout about their world collapsing, and try to find new forms of allowed dark pattern. Really the only way to get out ahead…
> But I can't see this changing in the medium term without some high-profile fines I'm counting on the German cease-and-desist industry to kick-start that - now that I think about it, I'm actually surprised it has happened yet.
It hasn't happened because it only works against private people which can't afford good legal representation.
Their entire 'industry' is just shitting on people in the lower middle classes and below for a few hundreds bucks per case.
With this they'd actually have to represent in court for every case. It's easier for them to just keep leeching of people that can't fight back
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#9> It’ll likely take heavy fines before people will care to go through the whole process of “cookie-lawing” and “GDPR-ing” their websites again.
This line is a bit disingenuous, as all of these guidelines are simply what “GDPR-ing” was supposed to be in the first place. Any website owner that contracted for someone to make their website GDPR-compliant that runs afoul of these rules should insist on getting their money back.
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#10There is a setting for Google Analytics which makes it pinky promise to not store too much information and with that setting you don’t need banners.
Would you trust that promise coming from a company whose bottom line relies on violating such promises?