Can the horrendous cookie banner by the EU be rolled back?

Re:Can the horrendous cookie banner by the EU be rolled back? by Raed667 on Monday April 04, 2022 @10:06AM (#30906784)

So you want it to be rolled back to what exactly? To a time where any website you visit or get redirected to can set any number of cookies that can track you forever across the web?

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Re:Can the horrendous cookie banner by the EU be rolled back? by PaulHoule on Monday April 04, 2022 @10:13AM (#30906858)

They can do it now, they just have to harass you first.

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Re:Can the horrendous cookie banner by the EU be rolled back? by fckthisguy on Monday April 04, 2022 @10:18AM (#30906895)

Yeah, and some people will decline. I'd rather be harassed than tracked.

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Re:Can the horrendous cookie banner by the EU be rolled back? by PaulHoule on Monday April 04, 2022 @10:20AM (#30906917)

Decline might mean you can opt-out and use the service or it might mean access is denied.

There are many different legal definitions of "privacy", one of them is "the right to be left alone", from that viewpoint widespread harassment might be worse than accumulating dossiers that are used tactfully.

The Soviet Union tried towards the end, but having 50 people assigned to track and harass somebody like Andrei Sakharov is no way to run a civilization, never mind promote full employment. If a society is accumulating dossiers that it can't take real action on that's different from having that system coupled to a harassment machine which is orders of magnitude more expensive than dossier building.

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Re:Can the horrendous cookie banner by the EU be rolled back? by Raed667 on Monday April 04, 2022 @10:36AM (#30907113)

Long ago I setup uBlock Origin with some Cookie-Banner and Annoyances specific rules.

I barely see any popups, and when they do make it through, they're few and rare. And I make sure to add the selector to my custom list.

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Re:Can the horrendous cookie banner by the EU be rolled back? by akvadrako on Monday April 04, 2022 @02:00PM (#30909885)

It's illegal to deny access if you refuse the tracking.

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Re:Can the horrendous cookie banner by the EU be rolled back? by aantix on Monday April 04, 2022 @10:35AM (#30907099)

I'd rather be tracked than inconvenienced.

Go away banners. They are annoying.

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