Velocipede Rider"We care about your privacy!"
Us and our ONE THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FOUR "partners". Hah ha!
Also fuck off!
Also I just switched off JS and read your fucking article anyway. What you and your partners gonna do about that? 🤪
In the real world still, if a person says to you, "This is my partner", that basically means something like, "If you trust me, you can trust them" and/or "this person can speak on my behalf because they know me really well".
But online "partner" apparently now just means "a collection of companies whose names I could not even recount without looking them up in a database or spreadsheet I have somewhere".
I only share my economy with one person and my highest level of trust is with that same person. It's my wife. She is the one person in this world I would give the label "partner".
Apparently I am holding myself back. I need to collect a few more thousand partners.
Here is a fun thing. I work for Vivaldi Browser. Load any of our websites and you see no cookie banner and no mention of partners.
"But wait" you say, "didn't those terrible Europeans mandate the cookie banner!?"
No, no they did not. We do not need a cookie banner because we are not selling all your shit to every company under the sun.
Also those sites with cookie banners are just doing malicious compliance. This was never about the EU requiring cookie banners!
The one wierd trick to not having a cookie banner is… wait for it… Do not sell out your users!
Who knew!?
David Culley@ruari If you don't surveil and sell your visitors, then you don't need cookie banners. It's very simple.
The only ones who don't seem to get this very simple fact are the tech bros trained by laissez-faire capitalists to hate the EU for daring to regulate their privacy invasions.
Chancerubbage@davidculley @ruari @mastodonmigration
Oh, there are internal navigation cookies needed in some web design. Especially if the site sells its own wares, or has a search for its archive. Although I was fine with HTMl 3.0 site maps for most sites 25 years back.
jelte@Chancerubbage @davidculley @ruari @mastodonmigration cookies that are used for internal navigation and sessions don't require a banner though
@jelte @davidculley @ruari @mastodonmigration
Seems to me the banners are on EVERY POSSIBLE SITE however.
Some are honest enough to break down if they are ‘necessary’ or ‘for their partners however. While others use that complexity to confuse more.
And most users don’t care. But can and will click away
Brian "bex" Exelbierd@jelte @Chancerubbage @davidculley @ruari @mastodonmigration as long as they aren’t passed through a third party even if privacy preserving, AIUI.