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Re:The mythical “fast” web page by fhood on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @11:52AM (#25360641)
Cookies aren't inherently evil or anything. They are a really important tool for a lot of situations. It's misuse that is the problem, persistent client-side storage is actually pretty critical for some stuff.
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Re:The mythical “fast” web page by chriswarbo on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @12:20PM (#25360986)
Consent is implied for everything needed to deliver a service to the user (e.g. cookies for a shopping cart, local storage for gaming high-scores, etc.).

Anything that's not required to provide users with the service they're after must either not track them or ask for explicit consent before doing so.

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Re:The mythical “fast” web page by selfhoster11 on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @12:45PM (#25361302)
They may be critical to core functionality of the site. Analytics is not core functionality of the site.
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