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 GoodEnough⢠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.
@jwildeboer you canât possibly know but I understand all of that better than you might think.
Itâs the implementation thatâs 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.
@jwildeboer on top of that there really are legitimate benign reasons to track user behaviour and make improvements to websites and applications, that do require some form of cookies or persistent storage on the userâs device.
Itâs too easy to wave the data brokers and tracking flag, because the cynical truth is that you donât even need cookies to do that part.
@xavez
You can do telemetry completely without tracking cookies / cookie banners. See GoatCounter.
It losses some precission in the name of privacy (visits are bucketed by IP address and software identifier into rolling 8 hour intervals), but the resulting data is still very useful for answering âWhat are my users doing on my website?â (with click paths!), without deanonymizing any individuals.
Cookie banner sell the lie, that you somehow need to keep records on every individual for this. You donât.
@jwildeboer
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