Comment by IanCal
1 day ago
In a way it is - or rather it wouldn’t t change anything if we added more features.
The default is “no”. Without explicit consent you can’t do a lot of things.
You can’t have a default yes, because how can you agree with consent but automatically to everything?
And if it’s a no, are you saying you can’t ask a user for permission to use their data for a specific purpose?
And if you can ask, that’s what we have right now.
They are asked _once_ during browser setup, same way on iOS users are asked once during setup if they want to allow Apps to track unique IDs (memory is hazy, they did that a couple years ago). And surprise surprise IIRC 96% of users said no.
Yeah I think it probably does mean you should be banned from asking in most cases. If you have a legitimate interest you don't need to ask. If you need to ask your interest is not actually legitimate and you know it.
Legitimate interest is not currently enough to read or write cookies. You need either consent or it must be "strictly necessary in order for the provider of an information society service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user to provide the service." (or "sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network", but that's harder to apply to cookies)
Which part says legitimate interest doesn't apply to cookies?
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