Complying with idiotic bureaucratic regulations. Nobody wants to be popping that thing up, but if they don't, they can get reamed by the EU.

Cookies are a basic building blocks of websites. If you login to a legit website, there's a cookie in your browser for that.

The popup is, yes. But the legislation they are pretending to be compliant with isn't.

For basic session-level cookies that are essential to the operation of some sites, no legislation requires consent. The issues are third party tracking, long term use stalking, etc. But those that want to stalk you want you to believe that the legislation is against even session maintenance & similar cookies as well so you'll be against the legislation and not them. And that is apparently working on you and some others commenting in this thread.

Also, largely due to the same anti-anti-tracking voices making spurious claims of what would happen, some put the warning up not because they think they need to, but to avoid having to argue that they don't need to if a complaint is made.

But to be fair the stories I have heard were something along the lines of: a freelancer making a website for a local restaurant and being unable to convince the restaurant owner, because the owner's nephew said that the cookie banner must be there.

If anything, putting such wildly non-compliant popups should make you more liable to punishment, because it undermines an argument of ignorance.

No, the tracking across sites will stop. None of those "silly" laws prohibit the use of e.g. session cookies.

edit: looking at the code I even see references to a “Reject All” button as well as an XHR request to a geolocation endpoint[1].

[0]: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/vw2khgjnyrnqucb/f

[1]: https://geolocation.onetrust.com/cookieconsentpub/v1/geo/loc...

And that just brings up the question again: why show the popup to non-EU viewers if the only option is to accept the cookies. It isn't even effective as a form of protest because those viewers have even less influence over EU regulations than EU citizens.

No, they care about being minimally compliant and laws vary.

A number of places have legislation that just says "users much opt in" but the EU has legislation that says "users must opt-in, but cannot be forced to opt-in by there being no opt-out option".

They don't care about your privacy at all, no matter where you are, if any claim otherwise is made it is a lie.

A bit of bad design there, not failing safe, if there intention is to be compliant with stricter laws, because a failure in an external dependency makes the site less compliant.

> Live flight not found

> The flight with callsign GTI747 is currently not tracked by Flightradar24. It's either out of coverage or has already landed.

> Do you want to see the flight history of this aircraft?

> [ ] No, close pop-up > [X] Yes, show aircraft history

Their ideas are at best slightly lower-quality than the results of letting my 2-year-old wash the windows.

If you're in the EU you'll see a "Reject All" option. To confirm this, set a breakpoint in their JS, change your country to an EU one, and the option to "Reject All" cookies appears: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/09wcuy4yh3qqoaw/reject_a...

Here's a screenshot of where I set the breakpoint and changed my country to France: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/ju41dpj14pn4onh/bp.png

Wow.