Ask HN: How will the GDPR law handle tracking cookies?

Re:Ask HN: How will the GDPR law handle tracking cookies? by fenier on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @02:43PM (#16486085)

You can set the cookies but that doesn't mean the browser won't remove them, or a ad-blocker prevent them from being set in the first place. I'm saying if you want something that always works, cookies likely aren't it.

You could do something like an iFrame, with the parent site passing information to the frame. Here's an example: https://medium.com/building-contently/tracking-people-across...

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Re:Ask HN: How will the GDPR law handle tracking cookies? by bruno_rzn on Thursday March 01, 2018 @06:41AM (#16491226)

Thanks a lot. Very interesting link.

Same question: this iFrame would be used to store information related to the user across websites, it kind of works like a cross-domain-cookie-replacement : could GDPR make these kind of tooling illegal ? Should we display a very specific popup to tell the user what those scripts really do ? And have an opt-out option ?

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Re:Ask HN: How will the GDPR law handle tracking cookies? by fenier on Thursday March 01, 2018 @07:49AM (#16491511)

Depends a lot about the data you are collecting I suppose. Not a Lawyer, don't know the use case. Can't really venture a guess on where it'd fall.

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Re:Ask HN: How will the GDPR law handle tracking cookies? by kasey_junk on Thursday March 01, 2018 @09:14AM (#16492127)

It could make this illegal for sure. On your second point, remember GDPR requires opt-in.

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