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Re:EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batte... by martin8412 on Sunday March 13, 2022 @11:03AM (#30661811)
No. The cookie disaster is because companies are making it a disaster. You're not required to ask consent for cookies used for technical purposes, such as managing user session.

The consent is only required for tracking cookies used to sell your data. So if you don't track your users, then you don't have to the pop-up.

I hope the EU comes down really hard on the companies deliberately making opting out of tracking difficult. A few billion dollar fines and those pop-ups requiring me to manually untick 300 different trackers will be a thing of the past.

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Re:EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batte... by raron on Sunday March 13, 2022 @11:44AM (#30662255)
> I hope the EU comes down really hard on the companies deliberately making opting out of tracking difficult.

At least NOYB does: https://noyb.eu/en/more-cookie-banners-go-second-wave-compla...

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Re:EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batte... by goodluckchuck on Sunday March 13, 2022 @11:25AM (#30662028)
Companies have always had to ask for permission to store cookies. The user / user’s browser decides whether to allow them, how long to keep them for, which sites will be allowed to access which cookies.

This should have been / should be fixed on the user end.

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Re:EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batte... by II2II on Sunday March 13, 2022 @11:41AM (#30662221)
Fixes were attempted on the user end decades ago. What did companies do? They ensured the end user was flooded with browser initiated cookie requests. Notice a parallel with the current situation?

Browsers now use better approaches, but nothing is guaranteed when web developers try to circumvent the protections because they cannot accept that no means no.

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Re:EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batte... by nerdponx on Sunday March 13, 2022 @01:14PM (#30663366)
Malicious compliance in action.
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Re:EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batte... by layer8 on Sunday March 13, 2022 @12:48PM (#30663052)
Browsers rejecting cookies just leads to the website displaying a popup to please enable cookies or else you’re not allowed to see the content. That’s actually even less user-friendly.
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Re:EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batte... by Nextgrid on Sunday March 13, 2022 @01:24PM (#30663496)
Data processing consent covers much more than just cookies.
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