We made our SaaS home page cookie-free

Re:We made our SaaS home page cookie-free by raxxorrax on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @09:40AM (#24979999)

You could use localstorage and a script for setting/getting the info via xmlhttp. Technically not a cookie and there is nothing automatically send.

I think cookies are great if they weren't abused as much.

(not saying the site is using any alternative approaches, I think their ambition is laudable)

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Re:We made our SaaS home page cookie-free by cseleborg on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @09:43AM (#24980021)

I believe localStorage is equivalent to cookies as far as the European cookie banner directive is concerned.

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Re:We made our SaaS home page cookie-free by volument on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @09:54AM (#24980114)

The eDirective states that the browser and device information (like the URL) is private data and you need a permission to access it for non-essential purposes such as analytics. This is why Simple Analytics also needs a cookie banner, contrast to what their marketing says.

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Re:We made our SaaS home page cookie-free by Vespasian on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @10:19AM (#24980387)

I'm not quite up to date, was it passed since 2018? I remember it being delayed quite a bit.

My Google-Fu has proved insufficient.

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Re:We made our SaaS home page cookie-free by volument on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @10:38AM (#24980583)

EU is still working on a new version of the directive. I heard they have been doing it for three years now.

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