Comment by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF
1 day ago
> EU adds those cookie banners to everything
EU required website operators to disclose certain uses of cookies and many of them chose the most obnoxious way possible. Perhaps more agreeable: every website that uses those banners should be disconnected from the internet.
They coulda said "Respect DNT or go to jail" but instead they broke the ultimate window.
For years I advocated, mostly successfully, to keep pop-ups, pop-unders, pop-ins and other abuse like that out of sites I worked on. Then the EU pulls this magic trick that transforms them into something required, and then "wholesome" so after that the dam breaks and it is common for a blog today to pop up three banners that want your email address, for pop-up ads to cover other pop-up ads, etc.
When your government is unresponsive like that the only choice is exit, no wonder the EU is overrun by populists that want out. If they don't want Frexit and Sprexit and Grexit they'd better think twice when they make another thoughtless law with terrible consequences.
> and then "wholesome"
What is this referring to?
> thoughtless law with terrible consequences
Fair enough, I guess. If I understand the point, the EU should not have presumed so much that the law would change behavior for the better. The obvious result is that behavior changed for the worse. For what it's worth, I still personally prefer speaking against those who made their behavior worse to comply with the law when it's so obvious what the lawmakers' intention was; the EU actually had user-friendly intentions and the cookie banners' implementations are the result of user-hostility.
>They coulda said "Respect DNT or go to jail" but instead they broke the ultimate window.
You know EU law only applies in the EU? And blockers exist? I always howl with laughter when some bumhole USA newspaper presents me with a cookie banner that got through. Then i change vpn-server, read what i want, and get on with my tawdry existence.