Due to some EU laws, there has to be a “cookie consent” dialog on every website that uses cookies. I would estimate that more than 50% (probably too low) of these popups are cosmetic only and it doesn’t actually matter if you click accept or reject.
You usually first get an injunction with some time to fix the issue, little risk of immediate fines.
So there is little reason to implement a working consent dialog unless you get a legal notice to do so. When the law came out we got a lot of such notices over the lack of the dialog, but after a usless dialog was implemented, it stopped.
Guess lawyers aren’t that tech savy or have better things to do.
IT in the EU:
Due to some EU laws, there has to be a “cookie consent” dialog on every website that uses cookies. I would estimate that more than 50% (probably too low) of these popups are cosmetic only and it doesn’t actually matter if you click accept or reject.
Wow that suck. I always spend time turning off every legitimate consent button. So I get cookies anyway?
Use this: https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies And combine it with this: https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete
I’ve set it to delete cookies on domain change.
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I have plenty, like close to 100 pages where I personally implemented the useless dialoge. But I’m sure not going to taddle on them.
But if you want to go hunting for it yourself: try small wordpress sites or other small self-hosted blogs.
This obviously won’t be true for websites of major corporations.
You know you could just report them yourself right
Yes indeed. I just don’t want to. It’s a silly law.
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That doesn’t sound realistic. There are real fines for non compliance and it’s trivial to find out what cookies you have.
You usually first get an injunction with some time to fix the issue, little risk of immediate fines.
So there is little reason to implement a working consent dialog unless you get a legal notice to do so. When the law came out we got a lot of such notices over the lack of the dialog, but after a usless dialog was implemented, it stopped.
Guess lawyers aren’t that tech savy or have better things to do.
Security theater.
EU, can you just make that shit go away? I am so goddamn tired of clicking cookie dialogs I could puke. kthxbye
Check out this add on that automatically decline data tracking popups https://addons.mozilla.org/sv-SE/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/
Ok
I forgot the link, lol.