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by tirpen 2424 days ago
Of course not. There is no law requiring cookie notice popups, there never was.
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fyfy18 2424 days ago
That's not true. It is law in the EU and companies have been fined:

https://www.cookielaw.org/blog/2014/2/5/spanish-cookie-law-f...

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matthewmacleod 2424 days ago
It is exactly true. Companies have been fined for not complying with law. Law does not require a “warning” of the sort being discussed.
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akvadrako 2424 days ago
There was before gpdr. I think it’s obsolete now.
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tirpen 2423 days ago
No, storing cookies needed to make your site work was always needed.

Sending tracking information to third parties required a notice of some kind, no matter if it was in the form of cookies or some other mechanism.

So, no there was never a EU cookie law, it was just a major FUD operation and a lot of people put up completely unneccessary cookie consent popups without understanding why.

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