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by NowThenGoodBad 2418 days ago
Serious question: is it the same law that requires websites to give a cookie pop up?

Because I let users know I'm not going to spam them with that shit at those that enacted that law can go to hell for every site I visit having it. It's a good thing but really annoying. There has to be a better, more interesting way.
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privateSFacct 2417 days ago
Agreed - especially on mobile a full page thing I have to click through to accept the cookies?? If I didn't want cookies I'd just block them and see how web worked - this should be browser setting, not a required click through on every website.

Your browser controls your cookies - use that, clear them, do whatever you want.

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L0stRegulator 2418 days ago
They are different but well related 'laws'.

The 'Cookie Law' is the 2011 ePrivacy Directive. it will be replaced by the ePrivacy Regulation (eventually). https://www.cookielaw.org/the-cookie-law/

The modern privacy law is GDPR, which came in in 2018. Pre-dating that were the somewhat country-specific interpretations of the 1995 Data Protection Directive.

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