@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.
@tesmaia Oh, but there is.
Or at least was.
Meet #DoNotTrack
Do Not Track (DNT) is a formerly official HTTP header field, designed to allow internet users to opt-out of tracking by websites—which includes the collection of data regarding a user's activity across multiple distinct contexts, and the retention, use, or sharing of data derived from that activity outside the context in which it occurred.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track
Industry refused to adopt it and the standard was withdrawn in 2018. So we get !@#$%^&*() consent dialogues.
My own response to those:
Note that this is usually overkill as uMatrix typically denies third-party cookies anyway. But it's my little personal protest.
(uBlock Origin, uMatrix, and Stylish are all browser extensions for #Firefox, Chrome, Safari, etc. Note that you want uBlock Origin and NOT the uBlock, which has gone to the dark side.
@dredmorbius DNT is stupid to begin with, you need to standardize the way consent is given, not standardize the opt-out, because then you already know it's going to be ignored.
If the only way to get consent, and therefore have the ability to place cookies, is through a fixed pathway, sites will implement the standard.
Bartosz Taudul
Tesmaia
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