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@gruber These cookie prompts ruined the web.
@simonbs @gruber and they didn’t have to. Cookie banners are intentionally designed to get people to click “accept”. The _ethically_ correct thing is to not collect identifying data at all until it is required for your user, then ask. Instead we get this. I spend part of my professional life helping companies suck less in this area. It’s an uphill struggle. Most don’t _want_ to understand. Easier to throw a cookie banner at it and pretend you’ve acted ethically. #privacy #consent
@bratling @simonbs @gruber ugh, same. I try to get clients to just get stats anonymously, but many (especially those with ‘online marketing agencies’ attached) feel like they have to, though they don’t know why.
@megamatt or just don’t track them at all.
@BenCotterill that’s what I mean. Anonymous statistics are easy to do, you still get useful data, and there’s no tracking.