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Re:French watchdog fines Google, Amazon for breaching cookie... by orwin on Thursday December 10, 2020 @06:53AM (#25372683)
DNT was made for this. In-browser, voluntary. How well did it work?
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Re:French watchdog fines Google, Amazon for breaching cookie... by aquadrop on Thursday December 10, 2020 @07:14AM (#25372848)
Better than cookies popups, at least it didn't create huge annoying thing.
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Re:French watchdog fines Google, Amazon for breaching cookie... by M2Ys4U on Thursday December 10, 2020 @07:20AM (#25372884)
The cookie banners being annoying is because these companies want it to be annoying so you don't pay attention and just click accept without actually learning what they do with your data.
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Re:French watchdog fines Google, Amazon for breaching cookie... by bzb6 on Thursday December 10, 2020 @09:03AM (#25373769)
So they are not only annoying but also worthless. Got it.
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