Re:No Cookie for You
by dathinab on Thursday December 17, 2020 @04:54PM
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But the EU law is not just about cookies. It's also about e.g. fingerprinting your browser which is very hard to effectively block in practice.
It's a common misconception that it's about cookies. It's about data processing, i.e. tracking. There is a different law then GDPR which is about storing data on user PC's but that is also not about cookies but about any browser storage and more or less got superseded(1) by GDPR.
(1): Ok, that is quite a oversimplification, but most popups are now about GDPR and having them also covers the other law.
It's a common misconception that it's about cookies. It's about data processing, i.e. tracking. There is a different law then GDPR which is about storing data on user PC's but that is also not about cookies but about any browser storage and more or less got superseded(1) by GDPR.
(1): Ok, that is quite a oversimplification, but most popups are now about GDPR and having them also covers the other law.