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by 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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