Mastodawn

Dear BBC, why does a public-funded national broadcaster need to set cookies that cross the GDPR threshold for its articles to be read uninterrupted?

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Jonathan Schofield 3d ago

…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/

What strictly necessary cookies does the BBC use?

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Jonathan Schofield 3d ago

…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?

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Ray McCarthy

@urlyman
Geolocation for web delivery is evil. Worse than DRM.
1. There is no perfect source.
2. IPs should not be geographically linked. An invasion of privacy.

Physical letters & parcel delivery needs a physical address. Nothing online should need. Splitting "rights" by region is abuse of the original intent of copyright to divide the market due to greed.