The main problem here is that not every site puts a convenient reject all button on there. They do make a good point that it would be a lot nicer if websites remembered your choice for a year.
Could someone briefly explain to me why they mandated the popups?
Just make them follow the web browser preference!
If I set my web browser to not allow any website to track me, then obey that for fucks sake!
Stop asking all the time when the answer is always the same.
Keep in mind that the regulation doesn’t say “plaster annoying popups everywhere”. It says “you can’t track people’s personal info unless you have one of a short list of permissible reasons” (it also covers some other things like you can’t store data for longer than you need it, what to do in the event of a breach etc).
It’s companies that decided “yeah sure let’s just post gigantic banners everywhere”, and also companies that decided to deliberately make these hard to navigate (and in many cases illegally making the ‘accept all’ option much easier to access than the option to not opt into anything).
They should make an all inclusive reject button mandatory. No more scrolling through each individual vendor in a huge list or getting tricked into accepting by them switching places to the confirm or accept buttons.
Tell me European elections are coming up without telling me European elections are coming up
The problem isn’t the law. It’s that the EU doesn’t come after those who break it
It is part of the EU directive that the reject button should be as easy to find as the agree button but that’s not what a lot of sites implemented
Automatic deny, make it opt-in, not opt-out.
Annoying, but hasn’t stopped me smashing REJECT ALL on every website.
Idk about others, but I hate it when websites don’t have a reject all button so I just go and use another website. I’ll give that website traffic to another website just because it gave me the humane option of rejecting all cookies.
Those sites that don’t give you this option are a**holes
Isn’t google already in the process of killing cookies?
“Reject all”, “accept all”, “choose selection”. All buttons must be immediately available as someone loads the page. And then add a toggle to “remember my choice”.
Make that the requirement for all sites and the problem is dealt with.
who really cares about this shit? Its such a non-topic for me
They could invite any professor to learn what cookies really are and what they can do. How this stupidity happened in the first place?
This should have been aimed at browsers not websites.
Average Reddit user, obsessed with their privacy and data but not willing to pay for a service. Just gtfo into the physical world and stop making life annoying for everyone else with your legislation.
The option to reject or agree is amazing. The amount of scrolliing I have to do to reject is the annoying part, not the banner itself.
They also train people to click on accept (all) whenever a pop-up comes up.
OMG please.
I remember a browser (duckduckgo or safari, the only ones I use) that has an option that chooses “reject all” (or the closest thing) immediately when the popup comes
I really like it, I’ve never had to click reject ever on my computer
Thank god. Please give us a way to reject all cookies immediately. I hate these banners.
The simple, consumer-friendly solution is: make tracking opt-in instead of opt-out and force websites to treat the “Do Not Track” header as a refusal to opt-in.
Weeee more regulations….
Why can’t this natively be handled by the browser?
No more cookie banners, each site puts up a header for cookies with a name and one of x categories, the browser can then allow all based off the categories or not.
No cookie banners needed, consistent UX on every site
Meanwhile greedy Google is switching from cookies to something new this year, EU needs to adopt counter measures faster.
Not allowing any collection of data should be a default state of any website. Web browsers could force it through their global settings. And who would want to share their data anyway? Okay, make it an option, but stop asking for cookies every time.
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The main problem here is that not every site puts a convenient reject all button on there. They do make a good point that it would be a lot nicer if websites remembered your choice for a year.
Could someone briefly explain to me why they mandated the popups?
Just make them follow the web browser preference!
If I set my web browser to not allow any website to track me, then obey that for fucks sake!
Stop asking all the time when the answer is always the same.
Keep in mind that the regulation doesn’t say “plaster annoying popups everywhere”. It says “you can’t track people’s personal info unless you have one of a short list of permissible reasons” (it also covers some other things like you can’t store data for longer than you need it, what to do in the event of a breach etc).
It’s companies that decided “yeah sure let’s just post gigantic banners everywhere”, and also companies that decided to deliberately make these hard to navigate (and in many cases illegally making the ‘accept all’ option much easier to access than the option to not opt into anything).
They should make an all inclusive reject button mandatory. No more scrolling through each individual vendor in a huge list or getting tricked into accepting by them switching places to the confirm or accept buttons.
Tell me European elections are coming up without telling me European elections are coming up
The problem isn’t the law. It’s that the EU doesn’t come after those who break it
It is part of the EU directive that the reject button should be as easy to find as the agree button but that’s not what a lot of sites implemented
Automatic deny, make it opt-in, not opt-out.
Annoying, but hasn’t stopped me smashing REJECT ALL on every website.
Idk about others, but I hate it when websites don’t have a reject all button so I just go and use another website. I’ll give that website traffic to another website just because it gave me the humane option of rejecting all cookies.
Those sites that don’t give you this option are a**holes
Isn’t google already in the process of killing cookies?
“Reject all”, “accept all”, “choose selection”. All buttons must be immediately available as someone loads the page. And then add a toggle to “remember my choice”.
Make that the requirement for all sites and the problem is dealt with.
who really cares about this shit? Its such a non-topic for me
They could invite any professor to learn what cookies really are and what they can do. How this stupidity happened in the first place?
This should have been aimed at browsers not websites.
Average Reddit user, obsessed with their privacy and data but not willing to pay for a service. Just gtfo into the physical world and stop making life annoying for everyone else with your legislation.
The option to reject or agree is amazing. The amount of scrolliing I have to do to reject is the annoying part, not the banner itself.
They also train people to click on accept (all) whenever a pop-up comes up.
OMG please.
I remember a browser (duckduckgo or safari, the only ones I use) that has an option that chooses “reject all” (or the closest thing) immediately when the popup comes
I really like it, I’ve never had to click reject ever on my computer
Thank god. Please give us a way to reject all cookies immediately. I hate these banners.
The simple, consumer-friendly solution is: make tracking opt-in instead of opt-out and force websites to treat the “Do Not Track” header as a refusal to opt-in.
Weeee more regulations….
Why can’t this natively be handled by the browser?
No more cookie banners, each site puts up a header for cookies with a name and one of x categories, the browser can then allow all based off the categories or not.
No cookie banners needed, consistent UX on every site
Meanwhile greedy Google is switching from cookies to something new this year, EU needs to adopt counter measures faster.
Not allowing any collection of data should be a default state of any website. Web browsers could force it through their global settings. And who would want to share their data anyway? Okay, make it an option, but stop asking for cookies every time.