Periodic reminder that EU did not mandate cookie popups.
Cookie popups are yet another example of malicious complience by an industry that wants to use and abuse data about us all.
@borup
EU: "You have to ask for consent before tracking."
Companies: "Hey, you can't access our website before telling us if we can send information about you to these tens of companies (in fact we were doing it without ask… Wait, I mean, we value your privacy)."

@OatPotato @borup To this day, many websites still don't ask for consent. Cookie banners are just cookies wall with only OK/Accept button

At best there's a hidden Refuse grey link/submenu, which is illegal, as refusing should by as easy as accepting.

While still
- place tracking cookies at 1st load before the banner is even loaded 🤡
- continue to use tracking after users have refused
- such banner often ignore non-cookie based trackers (hidden pixel, AT Internet/piano/google tracking scripts…)

@OatPotato @borup

Some even have a shitton of individually actionable on/off switches¹ for like 10 or more processing purposes + several hundreds of switches for "parteners", with no "Refuse all" button, and a big green "Accept all"…

The ones using IAB TCF form are the worst offenders…

1. Or they seem turned off but each and every PII processing purpose switch is doubled with a hidden and/or greyed out "legimate interest" although many purposes have nothing to do with "Legitimate interest".

@devnull @borup for the "shitton of individual switches", some countries have made this illegal: the law says you MUST show a button to refuse everything on one click. But not all companies are doing it still.

And yes, the "legitimate interest" is the worst thing EU could let open, the line between legitimate and not really legitimate can be very flexible…

@OatPotato @devnull @borup this is still backwards; the rule should be that they must not use cookies for more than login and/or TOS acceptance without an explicit opt-in, and must not interrupt the user to ask. Instead, they may provide opt-in controls, so long as those controls do not interfere with the primary content of the page. And similar for other surveillance mechanisms like spying pixels
@ShadSterling @OatPotato @devnull @borup login, add to carts, guest checkout...

@jrosell @OatPotato @devnull @borup if you’re keeping the cart in a cookie the user experience will be that when the user comes back to your site you’ve thrown away their cart. Don’t do that.

I’m not sure what cookie or tracker or spyware would be used for guest checkout

@ShadSterling @OatPotato @devnull @borup it depends if it's a session cookie or a permanent cookie.
@jrosell @OatPotato @devnull @borup you can’t assume the user will only use one browser and never clear their cookies
@ShadSterling @OatPotato @devnull @borup I agree, and I can't assume the user wants to be a registered user. IMO it's a tradeoff