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)
#2What 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?
Re: Sigh, this is what browsing the web in the EU looks like nowadays (2021)
#3i 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?
Re: Sigh, this is what browsing the web in the EU looks like nowadays (2021)
#4And 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.
Re: Sigh, this is what browsing the web in the EU looks like nowadays (2021)
#5What 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?
It’s more about training people to automatically click “accept” without reading anything. That’s security best practice for a continent?
Re: Sigh, this is what browsing the web in the EU looks like nowadays (2021)
#6In my view, most of these laws have a protectionist aim and this has been admitted in the legislative debates around them.
We might have tried similar things if Europe was as dominant in American tech markets.
Re: Sigh, this is what browsing the web in the EU looks like nowadays (2021)
#7What 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?
Yea, let's blame EU for websites spying on you
If website uses cookies just for legit purposes (e.g auth, language choice), then it doesn't need to show cookie consent.
Webmasters should get awarness on this or stop spying
Re: Sigh, this is what browsing the web in the EU looks like nowadays (2021)
#8i 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?
No mention of the dramatic difference between certain news websites not having intrusive pop ups due to GDPR. Which should be mentioned any time this debate pops up.
Re: Sigh, this is what browsing the web in the EU looks like nowadays (2021)
#9i 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.
Re: Sigh, this is what browsing the web in the EU looks like nowadays (2021)
#10And 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.
Just a guess, but even people that don't want to be tracked choose the easy "accept everything" button than spending the time to customize the tracking.
If companies DoNotTrack, they will have fewer people opting-in for tracking.