Re:Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety ...
by jacooper on Monday July 11, 2022 @02:47PM
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Well that's the websites problem, no body told them to include 50 trackers. And there are many filters to kill cookies banners.
Also AFAIK now there is an enforced Reject All button.
Re:Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety ...
by shadowgovt on Monday July 11, 2022 @03:24PM
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It's also the user's problem because there aren't websites to go to that aren't showing those banners.
Well, except the big, commonly-used ones where you've already consented (or not). Facebook, for instance. It's like this law was hand-tuned to consolidate users into only visiting a few commonly-accessed sites to save themselves the UX annoyance at the cost of the broader Internet's discoverability.
Re:Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety ...
by jacooper on Monday July 11, 2022 @06:19PM
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I don't agree, many websites don't have it.
Its a choice that these we sites that they want to still track everyone, and they are paying for it in bad UX.
Re:Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety ...
by shadowgovt on Monday July 11, 2022 @06:22PM
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It's the safest choice given the incentives.
Re:Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety ...
by pasc1878 on Monday July 11, 2022 @02:29PM
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So you prefer being tracked without you knowing rather than being asked and easily opt out?
Re:Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety ...
by shadowgovt on Monday July 11, 2022 @02:37PM
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Personally, yes. I think most of what the GDPR intended to accomplish could have been accomplished more easily by public education campaigns and broad cultural adoption of no-track plugins. That would have done a lot less damage to the user experience than naively assuming that if one pushed the educational burden onto sites, the sites would cease to do the tracking that triggered the educational burden rather than just bother their users forever with government-mandated information placards.
Especially given that what constituted "tracking" was so broad that a lot of sites took the "better safe than sorry" approach because it was cheaper than a full audit of their tracking and a lawyer to interpret whether, say, Apache logs that show IP address constitute "tracking."
Wow, does that suck. I see about 20% of the "cookie track consent" popups Stateside that I saw browsing from the EU.