European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying

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• GiddyGap@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A major political entity admitting mistake and correcting based on feedback. How refreshing.

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• noodlejetski@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  addons.mozilla.org/en-US/…/consent-o-matic/

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  • thatsnothowyoudoit@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you’re a safari user (desktop and mobile): oblador.github.io/hush/

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    • jojo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Consent-o-matic also works on iOS and safari

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  • Octopus1348@lemy.lol ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks! It works on mobile (Nightly).

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    • noodlejetski@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      should work on Android regardless of the branch.

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  • HejMedDig@feddit.dk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks!

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• maynarkh@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The actual EU documents say the complete opposite. They say that the cookie law is going nowhere, this new thing is a framework for easier compliance with the existing law for big business.

  From the [letter issued by the EU Supervisory Authority to the Commission about this](Chair of the European Data Protection Board):

  While voluntary commitments [of companies to adhere to the GDPR] may be a useful tool, the pledging principles should by no means be used to circumvent legal obligations. In addition, undertaking voluntary commitments does not equate or guarantee compliance with the applicable data protection and privacy framework.

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• merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The banners should stay. If a site doesn’t use cookies, you don’t get a banner. The sites choose for themselves if they want to use cookies and put up an obnoxious banner, or not use cookies.

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  • them@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think enforcing some universal API for this would be a decent compromise. This would allow browsers to handle the UI which means the user can set a global preference or set it per site. At the very least the UI would be uniform so you wouldn’t have to fight dark patterns trying to disable them.

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  • kebabslob@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What are you on about? The banners and cookie abuse should go

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• ViscloReader@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I trust they’ll do a good job focusing on privacy rather than outright going back to “no banner, cookies for everyone!”

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• pdxfed@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Install privacy badge, turn on “automatically send do not track” and those things all just melt away when you go to a new site as it processes almost all sites automatically.

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  • DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The “do not track” is really just you asking them politely not to track you, they are not obligated to stop tracking…more often than not, it is completely ignored and they track you anyway.

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    • noodlejetski@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      …and the request itself can be used as a data point.

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    • pdxfed@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      California’s regulations have teeth but there are some exclusions and exemptions, I guess like most laws it’ll only be followed if suing and getting damages is easy and results made public.

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  • beefontoast@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is it possible to do this on mobile phone browsers?

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    • pdxfed@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yup, that’s where it’s the most valuable to not have to drag fingers around and whatnot, easier if you needed to deal with popup on PC with mouse and keyboard and whatnot.

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• smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There are no cookie banners, at least not nessesary ones. There is just a consent requirement for processing personal data.

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  • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Um, what? Almost every consent banner I’ve seen had specifically asked about cookies, and usually nothing else.

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    • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is a misconception many sites fall into. They really do not have to ask for just cookies, it’s like there were asking to use CSS or JavaScript :).

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• LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can’t wait until 28 when people realize how nice cell phones used to be.

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