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by ho_schi 1288 days ago 

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What do they have in common? No benefit for the user.

Remove the entire EU-Regulation upon Cookie-Banners. I would be thankful. A service is allowed implicitly to store Cookies or any other mean of "remembering" when a login is used interactively by the user. If the user doesn't login itself you aren't allowed to store any data about the users.

And if they want do something for the environment, battery-runtime, reliability and user experience. Require that any public founded website must work without Java-Script.
2 comments
878654Tom 1288 days ago
That Cookie-Banners are so annoying is because companies want to anger customers against them. I have seen many websites that have easy cookie-banners or none at all as they only use functional cookies.

The legislation is fine, it literally is, if you want to track someone you must tell them.

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ho_schi 1288 days ago
Anger is an interesting term. They make it so huge that you want to get them out of the way and click "Accept"? I don't like the regulation for another reason. Cookie-Banners are a business model:

https://usercentrics.com/

Draws a dark shadow on the regulation. Smells like lobbying. They gather and store user data from other websites. The opposite of what should be done.

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xigoi 1288 days ago
> What do they have in common? No benefit for the user.

The benefit of cookie banners is that you know to stay away from the website if possible.

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