@ocornut EU cookie law is not the problem. You don't need to ask for consent for essential cookies, like the ones that store your login session ID or the shopping cart in a web store.
Every time you see the cookie popup, it's about selling your browsing data to third parties.
We see these popups everywhere and the reasoning is "the EU did something stupid", but it's the opposite. They caught the thieves red-handed.
"We value your privacy." Yeah, no shit. By putting a monetary value on it.
@colognella @wolfpld @ocornut
The ICO guidance is fairly clear on this:
“It is important to remember that what is ‘strictly necessary’ should be assessed from the point of view of the user or subscriber, not your own. So, for example whilst you might regard advertising cookies as ‘strictly necessary’ because they bring in revenue that funds your service, they are not ‘strictly necessary’ from the user or subscriber’s perspective.”
I don’t think you could argue that matomo opt-out or blocking multiple survey submissions is strictly necessary from the users’ perspective. There are some examples in the guidance too.
Bartosz Taudul
colognella
Martin Ellis