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[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Just don't remove it entirely, currently companies will at least pretend to comply.

bEFORE yOU cONTINUE tO gOOGLE sure is annoying though.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Remove banners, just make the companies respect the browser setting.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Please do remove it entirely.

I manufacture data about myself. Businesses want to collect this data for their commercial benefit and profit, without paying me. Cookie splash screens almost provide a method for this to happen legitimately, while still not providing me fair consideration.

Businesses should be prohibited from collecting user data, from taking value, without paying for it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

How could you enforce a ban on any kind of user data and how could such a compensation system even work?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It would be less annoying if you could easily tell it that you don't want garbage. Instead, when you select your preferences you have to go through a whole list of options. By the time you're finished customizing your cookie preferences you've forgotten why the hell you went to the page and what the hell the page is. It's ridiculous. It should be as simple as having two buttons: one for accepting the site's default garbage and another for for rejecting the site's default garbage.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago

The browser extension Consent-o-matic does this and was developed with money from the European Commission.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

All of these comments that say different things, but all sound like "just do X, I'm an expert in EU laws and their theoretical consequences". It's as simple as that, is it? Wonder why nobody thought of that before.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Oh. Someone at the EU Commission started to use websites? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

OH THANK f'ING GOD

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

I actually just landed in the EU for the first time since 2014, and i'm honestly quite pleased with the notifications i'm getting (albeit not the ones discussed here). The first time I opened AirBnB since landing, it asked me permission for all the data it wanted to collect for targeted advertizing, and I was actually able to turn off most of it. I wish the US had the same.

The website popups are quite annoying, but those are easier to control anyway by picking better browsers and extensions.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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