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European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying (www.techspot.com)
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[–] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The banners should stay. If a site doesn't use cookies, you don't get a banner. The sites choose for themselves if they want to use cookies and put up an obnoxious banner, or not use cookies.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    I think enforcing some universal API for this would be a decent compromise. This would allow browsers to handle the UI which means the user can set a global preference or set it per site. At the very least the UI would be uniform so you wouldn't have to fight dark patterns trying to disable them.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    What are you on about? The banners and cookie abuse should go

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I think what OP is saying that, yes, the cookie abuse should go for sure (I'm actually privvy of the "Legitimate interest" options.)

    But that if websites want to track you, then they have to be transparent about it - hence the banners. Wanna track me? Ask me for permission. Is it annoying? Tough luck! Are you losing users because of it? Well, boo-hoo! Remove the tracking and there you go. No banner. Everyone happy.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    But the reality is, that is the reality right now. And unless something is done, its not going away

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Correct. That's what OP is saying. If websites want to use tracking cookies, they'll have to deal with the consequence of being annoying to their visitors. I'm completely okay with that. Though I'd welcome an alternative.

    If websites were nicer about it, I would consider being tracked. So, a small banner consistently saying "Hey can we track you?" in which the default answer is "no" when you hit escape (as opposed to "WE ARE USING COOKIES TO TRACK YOU!!! CLICK SETTINGS TO DISABLE THIS!"), then I might click "yes" every now and then.

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