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Re:Modeled on man: Breathable skin for buildings by ben0x539 on Monday February 04, 2013 @10:18AM (#5164497)
When visiting the article, I get interrupted by the following popup

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I don't really like drive-by cookies, modal dialogs, or dialogs that try to force a choice on me, but can it be construed as consenting to cookies from that site's ads and tracking machinery if I use javascript or CSS or whatever to remove the popup without actually clicking continue?
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Re:Modeled on man: Breathable skin for buildings by jnorthrop on Monday February 04, 2013 @10:51AM (#5164694)
They are asking for explicit consent to allow them to serve cookies. This is in direct response to the EU Cookie Law[1]. The law requires that companies who use "tracking cookies" get permission from the user before implementing the cookies. It is their decision to not accommodate users who object to these cookies.

My organization's site does the exact same thing, and we are a privacy professional association[2]. Very few, even among our membership, care about the cookies, but it is still important to comply with the law.

[1]http://www.ico.gov.uk/for_organisations/privacy_and_electron...

[2]https://privacyassociation.org

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Re:Modeled on man: Breathable skin for buildings by StavrosK on Monday February 04, 2013 @10:28AM (#5164546)
IANAL, but if by "construes consent" you mean "I can sue them for using cookies even though I didn't strictly click 'continue' and used another method to bypass the warning instead", I doubt that any court would be sympathetic to your lawsuit.
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