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- technology@lemmy.world
European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying::undefined
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Thanks! It works on mobile (Nightly).
should work on Android regardless of the branch.
If you’re a safari user (desktop and mobile): https://oblador.github.io/hush/
Consent-o-matic also works on iOS and safari
The banners should stay. If a site doesn’t use cookies, you don’t get a banner. The sites choose for themselves if they want to use cookies and put up an obnoxious banner, or not use cookies.
What are you on about? The banners and cookie abuse should go
A major political entity admitting mistake and correcting based on feedback. How refreshing.
There are no cookie banners, at least not nessesary ones. There is just a consent requirement for processing personal data.
Um, what? Almost every consent banner I’ve seen has specifically asked about cookies, and usually nothing else.
This is a misconception many sites fall into. They really do not have to ask for just cookies, it’s like there were asking to use CSS or JavaScript :).
The actual EU documents say the complete opposite. They say that the cookie law is going nowhere, this new thing is a framework for easier compliance with the existing law for big business.
From the letter issued by the EU Supervisory Authority to the Commission about this :
While voluntary commitments [of companies to adhere to the GDPR] may be a useful tool, the pledging principles should by no means be used to circumvent legal obligations. In addition, undertaking voluntary commitments does not equate or guarantee compliance with the applicable data protection and privacy framework.
