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Re:The European Union versus the Internet by the_gipsy on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @03:23PM (#18018315)
They should, in theory, fine websites that do install cookies before you give consent, or refuse to give sevice that doesn’t strictly require cookies (e.g. an article).
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Re:The European Union versus the Internet by Aunche on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @03:49PM (#18018534)
If the cookie only stores the preference to not show the dialog box. That should be GDPR compliant.
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Re:The European Union versus the Internet by RandomInteger4 on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @07:57PM (#18020445)
You should be using localstorage from the web storage API and not cookies. Cookies are sent to the server with every request. Local Storage is not.
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