Jan Wildeboer 😷Feb 2

Repost from https://todon.eu/@marcohackney/115992340469511552 with ALT text added. Unified chargers, free roaming, travel, study and work everywhere in the EU, simple bank transfers with SEPA and Wero. EU makes life better. It' definitely not GoodEnoughâ„¢ in all parts.Work remains to be done. And that's worth doing!

Originally from a Facebook post by the EU Commission, ALT text added by me.

#ThanksEU

Show threadXavierFeb 2
@jwildeboer all we’ve got to do is fix the cookie thing and we’re golden 👌
Show threadJan Wildeboer 😷Feb 2
@xavez Which cookie thing? Just because your fav websites sell their online presence to the tracker and ad mafia who decided to block access until you agree to allow them and their 1482 partners in? The EU is to praise, not blame for that. Cookie banners are not an EU thing. My blog doesn’t ask because they are not needed.
Show threadXavierFeb 2

@jwildeboer you can’t possibly know but I understand all of that better than you might think.

It’s the implementation that’s the mess. Leaving this to millions of websites was a bad idea. It should have always been a browser preference. One exists and could have been adapted.

Show threadEggs now in different baskets.

@xavez @jwildeboer No, no, no.

Leaving it to millions of websites is brilliant.

There are a couple of cookie choice systems in use that are so utterly awful (in terms of having to block "Legitimate interest" cookies for all of their 847 partners ONE BY ONE) that when they appear after following a link from a search engine I can immediately leave that website and then block the site from ever appearing in my search engine again.

Feb 3 at 11:04amWeb
Show threadEggs now in different baskets.Feb 3
@xavez @jwildeboer Why on earth am I going to use a web page provided by an organisation that wants to make it so profoundly difficult for me to avoid giving them my data?
Show threadXavierFeb 3
@the_wub @jwildeboer sounds like you're already a savvy internet user. 95% of the people on the internet are not. They'll just click accept and move on with their life.
Show threadEggs now in different baskets.Feb 3

@xavez @jwildeboer So wouldn't a simple alternative be to NOT collect this data in the first place?

OR

Make data collection, both "legitimate interest" and data for tracking purposes OFF unless you specifically say you want to be tracked?

A big red button at the top of each website with the text "Please track me around the internet" on it.

So opt-in rather than opt-out.

Show threadXavierFeb 3
@the_wub @jwildeboer the only sane path forward is a browser setting with those defaults. Doing this per website makes no sense. That's like having to agree to terms and conditions every time you enter a building.
Show threadEggs now in different baskets.Feb 3

@xavez @jwildeboer ...for the first time...

Once your preferences are saved then you don't need to go through the cookie consent rigmarole again.

Except I do as most of my searches are done in private browser windows opened per search.

The "do not track" initiative died a death because it relied on the co-operation of sites that would lose money by not tracking you.

Any browser based solution would still have to be backed by legislation like the cookie-consent laws in the EU.

Show threadXavierFeb 3

@the_wub @jwildeboer of course, you solve this with laws and enforcement.

That said, the current implementation does not solve anything. Cookies are not the issue. Reselling data or using it for purposes other than the intended use (e.g. modelling user behaviour but then reselling it to meta so they can profile better to sell ads of which they don't share the revenue with you) is the real problem.

Show threadEggs now in different baskets.Feb 3

@xavez @jwildeboer While we are on the subject of Meta...

https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/116006573358262232