Stop whining about “The EU Cookie Policy” and improve your ways

Re:Stop whining about “The EU Cookie Policy” and improve you... by oneeyedpigeon on Friday April 14, 2023 @06:08AM (#35567630)

So is that tracking or not? It's definitely storing personal information, so it feels like it counts, but surely the intent is for a self-contained order database to get a pass on this? Maybe not.

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Re:Stop whining about “The EU Cookie Policy” and improve you... by olivierduval on Friday April 14, 2023 @06:17AM (#35567693)

I think that it's a matter of implementation, because all you need really is the order correlation, not the user that passed the order. So

- if you keep a reference to specific user (like "your friend toto bought this") then you need consent

- if you keep a reference to "user category/generic profile" then it's anonymized so no need for consent

- if your profile is build on all the orders of your different users but without user informations, then it seem fine to me... because of anonymity

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Re:Stop whining about “The EU Cookie Policy” and improve you... by friendzis on Friday April 14, 2023 @06:19AM (#35567706)

You don't need cookies for that

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Re:Stop whining about “The EU Cookie Policy” and improve you... by germanier on Friday April 14, 2023 @06:29AM (#35567777)

Although these things are called "cookie banner", it doesn't matter whether you need/use cookies or do it server-side. It's about the data that is being processed and the intent, not the technical implementation.

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Re:Stop whining about “The EU Cookie Policy” and improve you... by friendzis on Friday April 14, 2023 @07:44AM (#35568349)

And duration. E.g. session cookie holding serialized shopping cart data is ok, but longer term storage is not ok.

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