Seriously I hate how disabling cookies is a hassle that you have to do on a seperate settings site… Where you get another cookie banner obstructing half of the settings
Comment on European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying
dacookingsenpai@lemme.discus.sh 5 months ago
A serious law would be like (but in legalese):
- By default you CANNOT use tracking cookies
- If you want to use them you should have a Table that classify them based on how much fingerprint do they take
- Then you have to explicitly ask the user in the most clear and unintrusive way possible if you can track them
- And the consent should last 30 days max
Sheeple@lemmy.world 5 months ago
TheEntity@kbin.social 5 months ago
Sounds like the current law, except for the last point. The problem is with enforcing compliance.
Holli25@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
That is actually really close to what is present now. The EU never said “use cookie banners” but rather “if you really want to track people, they have to say yes”. And most commercial websites decided to make it hard to say no, now everyone blames the EU for doing so. Your second point is not yet implemented, this would be really good for consumers.
nybble41@programming.dev 5 months ago
They never should have made opt-in an option in the first place. All the legitimate reasons to store data are already permitted without asking permission (required for the site to function, or storing data the user specifically asked the site to store such as settings). All that’s left is things no one would reasonably choose to consent to if they fully understood the question, so that should have just legislated that the answer is always “no”. That plus a bit more skepticism about what sites really “need” to perform their function properly. (As that function is understood by the user—advertising is not a primary function of most sites, or desired by their users, so “needed for advertising to work” does not make a cookie “functional” in nature. Likewise for “we need this ad revenue to offer the site for free”; you could use that line to justify any kind of monetization of private user data.)