| > Is your contention It's not my "contention". You could read the text of the law and point out the exact places where it talks about cookies, popups, or browsers: https://gdpr.eu/tag/gdpr/ (Hint: there are no such places) > all of these websites and providers all simultaneously decided, incorrectly, to use these popups and that there is no legal requirement for them Yes. Yes they did. The bigger players decided that they have god-given right to your data. Facebook has literally spent the past several years arguing that in courts. The smaller players rely on a handful of literal ad-industry-owned leeches like IAB[1] or OneTrust to get their popup banners from because people are stupid and/or lazy and don't want to deal with details. So they, like you, were sold a lie of "to be compliant use our services". Sometimes sanity prevails. Here's GitHub: https://github.blog/2020-12-17-no-cookie-for-you/ --- start quote --- Well, EU law requires you to use cookie banners if your website contains cookies that are not required for it to work. Common examples of such cookies are those used by third-party analytics, tracking, and advertising services. These services collect information about people’s behavior across the web, store it in their databases, and can use it to serve personalized ads. At GitHub, we want to protect developer privacy, and we find cookie banners quite irritating, so we decided to look for a solution. After a brief search, we found one: just don’t use any non-essential cookies. Pretty simple, really. --- end quote --- [1] Literally Interactive Advertisement Bureau. Fined 250 000 euros in 2022 for non-compliance. |