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Re:Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target B... by adrr on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @11:41AM (#45670822)
Or we could stop the charade of that cookie laws prevents tracking and get rid of all the stupid banners. All the beacons are firing in the back(server to server) now and all session data is passed on the inbound URL and stored. Browsers banning third party beacons, cookies laws, etc don't do anything. You can't even tell your being tracked.
Re:Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target B... by Scandiravian on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @12:14PM (#45671369)
GDPR is not about Cookies, it's about all tracking, including the examples you mention. As far as I understand the GDPR, the things you mention would also require the user to opt-in to be legal