Re:Article 13 is almost finished and will change the interne...
by nmeofthestate on Friday January 11, 2019 @07:50AM
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>now you should be free and bold to click the disagree / refuse / no-cookies button and get the experience you expect.
This button doesn't exist in 90% of cases. Websites tend to dump you into a complex, deliberately tedious to edit options UI rather than providing a "No" button.
Re:Article 13 is almost finished and will change the interne...
by tremon on Friday January 11, 2019 @08:19AM
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The operative word is should. The GDPR does not allow that kind of asymmetry.
Re:Article 13 is almost finished and will change the interne...
by pas on Saturday January 12, 2019 @07:31AM
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yeah, then those sites are not compliant at all. just yesterday on a news site there was just an accept button. it was sort of cute, that it was very stark colored floating on the bottom of the page, so it allowed the reader to view the article, but there was no refuse option. (at least for my browsing sample these are becoming a rarity.)
because if the tracking/ad/shit/any cookies are not fundamentally required for the page to show, then denying you the usage of the site is a violation of your privacy (because you can't give selective consent to specific data uses)
sure, a lot of sites throw up the ugly banner, but now you can click fuck cookies, because fuck cookies if you only want to read a fucking HTML page with pictures. they can still make stats about your visit and aggregate them, but tracking cookies are absurd. (they can filter out repeated visits by looking at IP addresses and browser fingerprinting and/or they can ask you nicely to help them get better stats, but now they have to unbundle that from the ad tracking purpose.)