…The BBC currently sets 97 cookies it regards as “strictly necessary” and cannot be opted out of.
97!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/usingthebbc/cookies/strictly-necessary-cookies/
…One of the angles its cookies policy statements bang on about is things it ‘has’ to do to serve international audiences.
But aren’t there good geolocation APIs these days which mean that UK visitors don’t need to be treated like they *might* be from outside the UK by default?
…One of the cookies that the BBC regards as “strictly necessary” is
ckns_nonce
which “Helps to keep BBC accounts secure while signed in”.
But, apart from being unfortunately named for British audiences, surely that’s only “necessary” when one *is* signed in?
@marjolica indeed.
Pretty sure the overwhelming approach by large web dev teams is something like “we want to know this datum, or at least my boss does, how can we construct a rationale for why we *need* it”
@urlyman apart from this excess of 'essential' cookies, most of which are not required from the site to work (such as their various analytics cookies, many contracted out to a melange of 3rd party comanies as well as ones set by their own team) lots of their 'personalisation' still fail if you block third party cookies!
Their clever suggestion is to exempt their site from your 3rd party blocking.
@marjolica the sheer amount of analytics regarded as “necessary” is certainly quite something.
I suppose some of it is statutory, like the stuff for Barb https://www.barb.co.uk/about-us/how-we-do-what-we-do/
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