Jeff AtwoodAug 30, 2025
Look, EU, it is difficult to take you seriously when you forced all this cookie notification bullshit on us. That feature a) should not exist and b) if it did, should be a BROWSER feature not "every website in the entire world now has to bother everyone forever about this stupid thing" https://blog.codinghorror.com/breaking-the-webs-cookie-jar/
Breaking the Web’s Cookie Jar

The Firefox add-in Firesheep caused quite an uproar a few weeks ago, and justifiably so. Here’s how it works: * Connect to a public, unencrypted WiFi network. In other words, a WiFi network that doesn’t require a password before you can connect to it. * Install Firefox and the Firesheep

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Show threadJeff AtwoodAug 30, 2025
I'm in this picture and I don't like it.
Show threadZenieAug 31, 2025

@codinghorror

I love that you don't like it.

Stop tracking people. Problem solved.

Tracking is not necessary. It is immoral.
It is tracking that ruins the internet, not cookie notices.

Show threadVärldens bästa Kille™

@Zenie @codinghorror Funny thing: From a marketing standpoint all that tracking is useless.

It’s good for selling ad space, but worthless for making ads. True story.

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Show threadDon MartiAug 31, 2025

@thelovebing @Zenie @codinghorror GitHub managed to get to a compromise: cookie banners only on content for "marketing to enterprise users" but don't hassle most users on most pages https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/no-cookie-for-you/

(EU law requires consent to be "freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous" and nobody knows enough about today's surveillance business practices to do that in most places, so it's an open question how long these will work anyway. Depends on status of the EU/USA trade war I guess)

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