Re:Cookie Warning Shenanigans Have Got to Stop
by tripzilch on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @06:09PM
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> This feels like a war on cookies, and there are bad things done with cookies, but I'm not sure if they're fighting on the right front long term here.
Problem is will-full misinformation. It's a war on tracking cookies, not session cookies for login state, etc. But all the cookie warning dialogs make it sound like it's a war on all cookies no matter what, so "just accept because otherwise this site won't work, also <insert clueless condescending remark about the cookie law>" (really, the amount of sites that use this dialog as a misinformation soapbox to vent against not being able to track their users...).
GDPR seems like it could evolve quite quickly, and sort of fork a bit here...
Also makes me wonder, do they have to have access to the whole site?
This feels like a war on cookies, and there are bad things done with cookies, but I'm not sure if they're fighting on the right front long term here.
If people simply just say yes all the time / don't know, not sure we're making progress.