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by JohnTHaller 3685 days ago
Something that is best left to the browser to handle... by allowing the user to enable/disable 3rd party cookies. Which we already have. But no, the EU has stupid notifications on basically every single website as a result since everyone uses third party analytics. Why? If you want your analytics to be believed by anyone who wants to advertise with you, invest in you, partner with you, or buy you, they'd damn well better be third party analytics.
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rdancer 3685 days ago
The EU Commission and the regulatory agencies actually agree with you. The stupidity is 100% with the web devs and customers.
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carlesfe 3685 days ago
What do you mean with "The stupidity is 100% with the web devs and customers"?

The law requires user consent, in form of a click on a banner or scrolling the page, before setting any cookie.

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rdancer 3685 days ago
Which law? The 2002/58/EC doesn't.
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carlesfe 3684 days ago
Not that one.

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:320...

Complete law: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX...

Paragraph 66 talks about cookies.

A later exception was made by the EU for session cookies.

Guidelines for webmasters:

http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm#se...

It has a sample banner which is similar to those which most users display.

Spanish official directives (with further protection because of a local law called LSSI): https://www.agpd.es/portalwebAGPD/canaldocumentacion/publica..., page 17. Also comes with a sample banner

Did you really think that everyone else was wrong or didn't read the law and is programming these banners as some sort of fad?

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