• Scrollone@feddit.it
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    9 months ago

    I partially agree with you, and of course I hate those cookie banners, they’re completely annoying.

    But please remember that it’s not the EU’s fault is every website is trying to violate your privacy.

    If websites weren’t tracking everything you do, then cookie banners wouldn’t be needed.

    I think we should collectively ask for websites to stop spying on us, not changing the cookie banners regulation.

    • lemmyvore@feddit.nl
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      9 months ago

      That’s already a solution to cookie banners: the “do not track” setting. It’s been tested in court in Germany and confirmed to count as rejected permission for GDPR purposes. Websites dinky have to obey it.

      It’s currently slowly gaining traction, there’s a privacy advocacy group suing high profile targets over this to create awareness.

      We also need a formal change to the cookie law/GDPR to acknowledge “do not track” as the preferred method. Then the banners will slowly go away.

    • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de
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      9 months ago

      Yep, all the EU done is forced websites to have consent if the website want to process personal data. There are many analytics that does not process IP address or fingerprint and so does not require consent banner. Be annoyed on the websites, not this law.

      • nomadjoanne@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        And yet we live in a world where consent spam is actually harder to deal with than tracking, if you’re smart.