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by rdancer 3683 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 3683 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 3683 days ago
Which law? The 2002/58/EC doesn't.
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carlesfe 3683 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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