Comment by bitmasher9
9 hours ago
Why even ask for the cookies if denying them doesn’t achieve much?
It’s naive to think that cookies are the only tool used for tracking, but they are the most powerful tool for web based tracking.
9 hours ago
Why even ask for the cookies if denying them doesn’t achieve much?
It’s naive to think that cookies are the only tool used for tracking, but they are the most powerful tool for web based tracking.
Because in some legal systems you're required to ask. You're also required to follow fairly specific rules relates to the user's selection and data, though I can't imagine enforcement keeps up with websites breaking those laws.
Because EU Cookie Law was a flawed idea?
How so? The law doesn't require cookie banners. However, you could argue that tracking/advertisement cookies should have been banned completely and that the law is flawed in that it allows for tracking given user "consent".
I love the EU apologists - “it wasn’t a bad law just because the outcome was bad”
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It was not a flawed idea, but flawed execution. The law should have mandated to adhere to the user's "do not track" setting in the browser.
That being said, it was very early regulation in this field, and more recent approaches are already better, e.g., GDPR, DMA.