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Re:Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings by ezoe on Sunday October 18, 2020 @10:42AM (#24818182)
Although politicians and the court does not understand the cookie, That doesn't mean we won't have a backlash. It just doesn't guarantee the backlash is technologically sound. EU's cookie law, for example, is just stupid from the pure technical standpoint.

It's your computer that store a cookie to local storage. It's your computer that decide to send back previously stored cookie. And they're crying like they don't have a consent.

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Re:Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings by lima on Sunday October 18, 2020 @12:45PM (#24819127)
> It's your computer that store a cookie to local storage. It's your computer that decide to send back previously stored cookie. And they're crying like they don't have a consent.

Fortunately, EU regulators understand that non-technical users exist and need protection from abuse.

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Re:Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings by QasimK on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @09:47AM (#24837223)
Except your computer doesn’t know what the purpose of a cookie is, in order to decide what to do with any particular cookie.

Neither does the user, not by themselves anyway. Only the website knows really.

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