Just build websites that comply to GDPR per default and leave that crap away. Many people don't even seem to know this is possible. They believe Cookie consent is something everybody has to do on their website and if they don't do it they are in danger.
Well, that would require some kind of interoperability between the client and the website (like an HTTP header that sends cookie events).
I absolutely would prefer that to the world we have now. I'm all on board, you don't have to convince me it's a good idea.
But, that doesn't exist today. I do prefer having the stupid annoying popup that gives me the option to allow only required cookies to having no choice at all.
The new GDPR compliant cookie popups give me that option. It's a step up above not having the option at all.
I want the opposite of this. Is there some tool I can use to just automatically agree to all of these annoying GDPR cookie popups so they stop bugging me?
What I don't like about the GDPR is how it handled cookies. We could have much tighter control and explicit consent at the browser level, which makes sense because it's a browser feature.
Instead of something useful like that, we have annoying popups on millions of websites.
Wow I think that site has the 1st decent GDPR popup thing I've seen. Just two buttons, accept cookies, reject cookies, u click one and then it goes away.
Love those cookie warnings. We need more popups like that. Imagine all the quality time spent clicking, knowing, for sure, that you are getting a cookie.
I am not a lawyer or a GDPR expert, but I think that probably wouldn't satisfy the intent of the GDPR any more than current browser capabilities to accept or reject third-party cookies would.
what's really missing in all this GDPR and privacy discussion is a technical way to enforce it. If you have a large multinational company with 50 TLD's you might have several hundred (including all the subdomains) that are Internet facing.
For a company on that scale to remain compliant to things like cookie law (mention every cookie and what it does for opt-in) there is no easy way to see if you're compliant. We need some standard (like security.txt) which defines how cookie data, impressum or other site specific links are expected which has to be machine readable. Right now every company creates it's own mess of html which is no fun scraping to figure out if the company is compliant or not. (yet scraping is what everyone in compliance expects to happen).
I wonder how these laws can be enforced without creating a huge administrative backlog.
Gdpr makes using websites a terrible user experience with the million cookie prompts. My parents will click on anything to make popups go away. Please no.
I’m not a lawyer, but I’d be shocked if you could get around gdpr by using a different api. If gdpr was actually limited to `document.cookie` and `Set-Cookie` it’d be a laughable attempt to protect users.
And in Europe, cookies / nag-popup-removers for all those GDPR compliance dialogs (though vanilla Firefox is becoming better in blocking trackers by default).
If by GDPR you mean the cookie banner that appears on most websites? It's as if we ask for something and are punished for it. I'd like to see some proof that GDPR has achieved major changes in data privacy before a copy-paste.
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