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Re:No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU... by ratww on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @01:08PM (#23093538)
This is correct in GDPR. This is why you can’t use something like LocalStorage, ETags or something else as a loophole.
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Re:No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU... by Nursie on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @01:33PM (#23093876)
No, you can't, because the law concerns itself with data storage and processing, not whether you are using a cookie.
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Re:No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU... by ratww on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @02:01PM (#23094269)
Ah that was a brain fart moment, sorry. I meant to say you cannot use, GDPR is something I handle daily. Thanks for correcting, I amended the answer.
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Re:No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU... by allover on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @01:27PM (#23093797)
This is not correct, in the UK at least. Similar technologies like LocalStorage fall under cookie law. [1]

[1] https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-pecr/cookies-a...

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Re:No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU... by allover on Thursday May 07, 2020 @04:47AM (#23101024)
Parent edited their comment from "can" to "can't", and I got downvoted, yikes.
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