The last thing we need is more cruft sent across the wire.
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This accounts for the seeming uptick in cookie notices. To my knowledge, Google has not enforced this in the past.
My solution was to use CloudFlare to get geotags and PHP to serve the warning to only to those who live in the EU, but to each his own.
And as far as there isn't any "cookie law" on the books, it's about compliance with data protection and privacy regulation. So the EU isn't standing in the way of the industry to do that in another way.
why? Then ads will use that "new" thing as well. Cookies are enough for authentication.
It is however inconvenient for the websites. They could always stop using privacy-invading ad networks and external services which track users and then they wouldn't have to show any message.
Because I have better things to do with my time than click to close the message on every single website I visit.
If you actually read them then good luck to you. I think most people either a) don't care or b) install a global blocker to suit their particular privacy requirements.
Because the web becomes unusable with those "helpful" cookie notices when I actually do block cookies browser-side.
Those "TRUSTe" JavaScript solutions are the worst. They fade the whole page to black, then take whole seconds to load and make the browser sluggish.
Because as I am already using an AdBlocker that blocks the tracking cookies, this message is irrelevant.
"if these companies would just invent and build a new infrastructure to pay the bills, they wouldn't need to present a nag."
There are many business models which do not come with moral dilemmas and that do not fall under the incidence of this law. Data mining and tracking might be trendy, but it's not a free for all, there need to be rules and the privacy of users must be respected. If some companies are unable to do fulfill these basic and fair requirements, that is strictly their problem.
It seems to me there would also be an active push against any such implementation because it would make current solutions for getting around this type of cruft more effective than it already is.
Although if we were going to go this route I'd like to see it be a server-side rather than included in the markup. The browser could detect that you are visiting a new domain and request relevant information upon connection.
Not every country. This is EU legislation after all; any website hosted in one of the 28 member countries has to abide.
https://boingboing.net/2012/06/13/error-code-451-an-http-err...
Since internet law will only get worse, maybe it's time for a "real" technical solution to this. For example, if we had a standardized HTML element attribute to mark these widgets, browser/adblock makers could enable people to opt out of displaying them. It might look something like this:
And ideally, there would be a JavaScript API to query this as well, maybe piggy-backed on the Permissions API: