> ... or wether Google thinks they are a man or a woman (*gender is a construct), or hundreds of other things that more invasive analytics software tracks.
Was that really necessary to have in a cookie disclosure?
Thank you for not using the cookie notice! This is clearly a better way of following this law, and probably what the EU intended when they created it.
Cookie notices have become a massive pain on the Internet. What really annoys me is that these notices are on websites that don't even serve the EU. The other day I was browsing the website for a local (non-EU) cellphone company, on a local TLD, from an IP address registered to a local ISP, and I still had to accept this meaningless popup.
Even if cookie notices did constitute some kind of consent (pretty debatable) they would be a dark pattern that should be banned in the public interest anyway (like, while I'm on the topic, infinite-scrolling slot machine pseudo-"timelines").
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[ 397 ms ] story [ 746 ms ] threadWas that really necessary to have in a cookie disclosure?
Cookie notices have become a massive pain on the Internet. What really annoys me is that these notices are on websites that don't even serve the EU. The other day I was browsing the website for a local (non-EU) cellphone company, on a local TLD, from an IP address registered to a local ISP, and I still had to accept this meaningless popup.
So the company could have one or more EU citizen customers who even live in the US.
But I clearly like the one cookie for sessions approach better, and most of these alerts don’t actually fulfill the requirements anyway.