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by tinus_hn 2529 days ago
There is a setting for Google Analytics which makes it pinky promise to not store too much information and with that setting you don’t need banners.
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Would you trust that promise coming from a company whose bottom line relies on violating such promises?
It’s not about you trusting them, it’s about satisfying the requirements of the law.
If you don’t mind letting a malicious company stalk your users then by all means go and “satisfy the requirements of the law”.
Obviously around 0% of website owners do as they had to be forced into not pushing tracking cookies onto you by default. The decision is not mine to make as a user.