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!
RevK 
@ruari weird how they did not see that this would happen. We all did. It was obvious.
The crap that goes on behind the scenes is mad: “789 trusted partners” etc.
They should have somehow actually banned that, not “banned unless consent”. If they had made it something like written consent on a signed paper contract (wow, imagine posted cookie banners), or just some way that forcing the consent was not commercially viable. A simple banner is way too cheap.
kasperdThose banners are actually hurting privacy. They put an extra obstacle in the way for anyone who wants to browse the site in a private window.
And how many sites actually wait for consent before setting all of those cookies? Have you ever counted how many third party cookies are being set before you approve one of those forms?