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!?
txtx 🇪🇺@ruari While I agree on principle, iiuc are there not perfectly valid exceptions to this? If you are a manufacturer, you may need to pass on a person's address to a logistics company for delivery. If you're e-commerce, you may need to pass the address to the manufacturer and logistics firm and whoever else is down that chain. Etc
Lux 
@orange_lux If you forward personal data to a logistics/manufacturing firm, customers need to be informed by law — whether you place that information in a cookie banner or somewhere else. GDPR isn't a cookie banner law. This seems to be a huge and unfortunate misunderstanding.