Ask HN: Why doesn't apple.com have a GDPR-esque “cookie banner”?

5 points by mwint 4y ago ↗ HN

After looking at the recent front-page link about an HP product (https://hpdevone.com), it hit me that Apple is quite possibly the only large website I visit without a cookie banner (https://apple.com).

It's delightfully refreshing to see an entire screen covered in website content, where step 1 isn't to find a tiny "x" button on a popup.

It's not that they don't set cookies - they do. So what does Apple know/do that everyone else doesn't? And can I follow whatever they're doing when building my own site?

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pwg 4y ago ↗

The cookie banners are not present to ask to set cookies, the GDPR allows for "necessary" cookies.

What the banners are for is that the GDPR requires permission to set tracking (advertiser) cookies, not that any banner text actually honestly tells you that this is the real reason why it exists and is asking your permission to set cookies.

Perhaps Apple has no tracking (advertiser) cookies being set, and therefore they have no need for a "cookie banner".

ev1 4y ago ↗

Visiting the front page I don't see any ad services being loaded. There is Omniture analytics, first party, on the apple domain, but that's it

exz 4y ago ↗

According to privacy badger they have 1 tracker that connects to appleglobal.102.112.2o7.net

yuppie_scum 4y ago ↗

GDPR didn’t take into account how companies couldn’t give a damn if the web becomes a horrible place due to those banners. As long as they track that cookie data.