Re:Google said it had successfully ‘slowed down’ European pr...
by Jensson on Saturday October 23, 2021 @12:14PM
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You are talking about the ePrivacy Directive, not GDPR. Cookie banners has been a thing for well over a decade.
What you probably meant is the user data banners/popups you have to click on that are new since GDPR. They are not cookie banners, they are a different thing, calling them cookie banners gives people the wrong impression.
The fact that you mix these two makes it look like you don't understand what you are talking about here. Especially since you talk as if this was the only thing GDPR changed. The cookie law is stupid, but GDPR is not.
> The proliferation of such alerts was largely triggered by two different regulations in Europe: the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a sweeping data privacy law enacted in the European Union in May 2018; and the ePrivacy Directive, which was first passed in 2002 and then updated in 2009. They, and the cookie alerts that resulted, have plenty of good intentions. But they’re ineffectual.
https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/12/10/18656519/what-are-cook...