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Bartosz Taudul Jul 1, 2023

@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.

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Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉Jul 1, 2023

@wolfpld @ocornut thanks. I didn’t realize this.

Tapping deny from now on. I was tapping accept purely on the grounds of “well this will break otherwise”

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Reed Mideke

@Migueldeicaza @wolfpld @ocornut IANAL, but I don't think that description is fully accurate. If you collect / track personal information, you need consent even if you aren't selling the information, and boundaries are often unclear. You'll notice a lot of EU government sites have those popups despite not selling your info. For example ESA has one, and describes what they use here https://www.esa.int/Services/Cookies_notice

Cookies notice

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Alex Nedelcu Jul 2, 2023

@reedmideke The only reason analytics needs cookies is for tracking visitor profiles across visits. Visitor profiling is creepy af regardless of the motives behind it, and the reason for why even respectable orgs are doing it is because it was normalized.

The ESA should disable that tracking cookie (and related fingerprinting) in their Matomo setup, as they don't actually need it for anything.

@Migueldeicaza @wolfpld @ocornut