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by ThunderSizzle 1638 days ago
We already knew cookies were being used everywhere. I dont need to be told the same thing 100000 times because it makes some people feel better and altruistic.

It didn't bring any benefits and has wasted excessive amounts of my time.
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shakow 1638 days ago
*tracking cookies

First-party, non-tracking cookies do not require a cookie banner.

I'm always flabbergaste how good the propaganda machines of ads agencies is that people are actively fighting protective measure on their behalf. Nihil novi sub sole I guess, but it's fascinating to see this process happen first hand.

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ThunderSizzle 1638 days ago
If it took a banner for you to realize people used Google analytics or similar services, then the banner isn't helping you avoid it.

You should've been running a blocker already. I run third party blockers as much as possible, but these banners are just excessive and useless.

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shakow 1638 days ago
> then the banner isn't helping you avoid it.

That's just plain false. I know many people, especially in the older, less technically literate people, who now systematically disable such analytics thanks to these banners – people who had never realised the real dimension of users tracking before this law.

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Aerroon 1638 days ago
It's not propaganda by ad agencies. Why make it into a conspiracy? There are pretty great tools out there that you can use for websites, such as Google analytics, but the moment you use that you're implementing a cookie banner.

Want to have ads? Cookie banner. Want to have YouTube/Twitter/whatever integration? Cookie banner.

europa.eu has a cookie banner. A website that doesn't even need to pay its own bills!

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shakow 1638 days ago
> Want to have ads? Cookie banner.

That's just wrong, you don't need a cookie banner for non-tracking ads.

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ThunderSizzle 1638 days ago
You need to have a cookie banner to have a third party provide ads, which is the most common way to do ads.

Regardless, I block the ads, but I'm still trying to figure out to block all the dialogs about cookies for the ads I'm blocking.

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shakow 1638 days ago
> You need to have a cookie banner to have a third party provide ads

No, you only need a cookie banner if those third parties collect data.

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watwut 1638 days ago
The banners are about tracking, not about cookies. You can use cookies and not have banner.
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