Cookie popups ruined the web. Must we keep on like this?
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#2A solution more harmful than the non-existant problem it was meant to solve. We are very good at that kind of things.
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#3child porn / terrorism accusations ruine fundamental of web. Internets without cookie popups might be just a good facade on bad fundamental.
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#4Focusing on cookies was a mistake. They should have insisted the Do Not Track header be respected.
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#5I don't even bother rejecting cookies anymore, I reject the whole website altogether, bounce right off.
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#6Ignorant people and predatory ad vendors ruined the internet. It's positive that site owners are forced to disclose some of what they do, because otherwise people would pay it no mind and assume everything was all roses. If the EU can annoy Americans enough into enshrining some sort of consumer data privacy protections, maybe there'll have been a long term point to all this.
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#7Focusing on cookies was a mistake. They should have insisted the Do Not Track header be respected.
How a user can be sure websites respect this header? Cookie banners is a work in a field requested by masses which is done obviously. The genie must work according to the letter of the request, and what was the spirit of the request he doesn't care.
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#8Focusing on cookies was a mistake. They should have insisted the Do Not Track header be respected.
The GDPR didn’t focus on cookies but on informed consent to be tracked. Do not tracked died when Microsoft set it as default in internet explorer.
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#9The value of this, and more so GDPR, however annoying one may find it, is that it gives the consumer rights that they can use to punish a bad actor. The dialogue is not really the point, it's what you can do with the rights that the dialogue gives you.
Additionally, websites could also implement the cookie (and GDPR) dialogues in a way that wasn't painful. The law doesn't say that you have to implement the dialogue in the slowest most CPU intensive way possible.
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#10I don't even bother rejecting cookies anymore, I reject the whole website altogether, bounce right off.
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