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skrebbel | on: Every Fucking Website (2020)
Bullshit. There’s no need to track every visitor. Just stop tracking and you don’t need a cookie banner.

The only mistake EU policymakers made was underestimating how willing companies were to deface their websites.

PerryUlyssesCox | parent | next
"Every time you visit the websites managed by the European Commission, you will be prompted to accept or refuse cookies." https://european-union.europa.eu/cookies_en
frollogaston | root | parent | next
So much for "it's corps doing malicious compliance"
skrebbel | root | parent
Wow this is terrible and embarrassing.
ryanfreeborn | parent | next
>The only mistake EU policymakers made was underestimating how willing companies were to deface their websites.

Yes and that is a MASSIVE mistake for a policymaker to commit. They should absolutely be pilloried for their incredible lack of foresight and understanding of how internet companies handle compliance. The policy has set back humanity by further desensitizing internet users around the world to the terrible, endemic use of cookies by most websites.

NetMageSCW | parent | next
That shows the same fundamental misunderstanding of the modern web that led to the ignorance of EU regulations.
zigzag312 | parent
The policy is both, good, but also flawed. For example, you cannot persist settings, because one policy says that website settings should be ephemeral unless user agrees to persist them.
dgellow | root | parent
That’s not true, it’s even explicitly called out by the EU guidelines.

Copy pasting an older comment because it’s really coming up all the time…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49060456

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That's not true and is a very common misinformation people repeat online. You can save user preferences in cookies without any consent banner, if the cookie isn't used for tracking. See here[0], page 6: > As stated in Article 5(3) ePD: ‘This shall not prevent any technical storage or access for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network, or as strictly necessary in order for the provider of an information society service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user to provide the service.’ 0: https://www.edpb.europa.eu/system/files/documents/2024-10/ed... As long as you do not share that info with 3rd party, and the user requested it, you can store via cookies pretty much whatever you want without the need for a consent screen

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