Snark for sure. But I wasn't aware if no tracking it's not necessary. Why do we need cookies for all these garbage sites anyway? I can understand anything requiring a sign in, but before you sign in do you really need this notice?
What really gets me is the dark patterns involved in Accept, or very much less prominent link to review preferences and uncheck all but what's actually necessary, and then OK.
One good side effect of the GDPR pop-up is that I can now use it as a proxy measurement for ownership shadiness and information usefulness.
If the pop-up makes it reasonably easy to opt out and start reading, it's usually a good indication that a) nobody feels the need to hide anything weird they do with my data and b) that the information is useful enough that whatever engagement is generated organically is enough to serve the overall business goals (including e.g. tracking dissemination goals), so nobody needs to get creative with aftermarket use of tracking data.
If it doesn't, then it's a good sign that tracking data isn't quite being used in a way that the owners want to be made public, and/or that much of the information on the website is probably junk, so business goals are met by means other than providing accurate, useful information to interested customers.
Sure, there are websites that don't fall in either of those nasty categories, they just have bad UIs. What can I say, management incompetence can have tough consequences.
totally waste my time to read it.
I opened your company site and found 4 cookies and no cookies popup. So the trick is no cookies popup even you have cookies.
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 20.7 ms ] threadtldr; no loophole, he’s just not tracking users.
If the pop-up makes it reasonably easy to opt out and start reading, it's usually a good indication that a) nobody feels the need to hide anything weird they do with my data and b) that the information is useful enough that whatever engagement is generated organically is enough to serve the overall business goals (including e.g. tracking dissemination goals), so nobody needs to get creative with aftermarket use of tracking data.
If it doesn't, then it's a good sign that tracking data isn't quite being used in a way that the owners want to be made public, and/or that much of the information on the website is probably junk, so business goals are met by means other than providing accurate, useful information to interested customers.
Sure, there are websites that don't fall in either of those nasty categories, they just have bad UIs. What can I say, management incompetence can have tough consequences.