There is no EU cookie banner law

You know those modal screens that interrupt your groove when you are surfing?

There are no laws forcing websites to use them.

They use them because they choose to.
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Cookie banners are not only not required, they're not even needed, and most implementations you encounter today are illegal anyway. You can use session cookies and anonymous stats cookies w

https://www.osnews.com/story/138870/there-is-no-eu-cookie-banner-law/

#Legal

@osnews I always felt like the big obnoxious cookie banners are the tech industry's way to pushing public opinion against government regulation as in "look at what Big Bad Nanny State is forcing upon you!!!1!11!"

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a good reply to that post in the comments:

I disagree with the premise here that an obnoxious banner isn’t the best way for companies to comply.

“Silence, pre-ticked boxes or inactivity should not therefore constitute consent” That means to me that you need be obnoxious in how you present it to the end user to get consent for tracking. How else would you do it? The Do not track header doesn’t meet this guideline. You can’t use it to ask for permission to track. And that’s what the companies want. They want to track you. Its in their best financial interest to do so. They want to compel users to legally agree to be tracked. You can hide behind the letter of the way saying its not required, but thats being rather obtuse. The companies are behaving as would be expected to maximize their profits while adhering to the law. If this is something the EU does not want, it would need to adjust the law to change the behavior of companies.

this is exactly on point
the mistake the EU made is not outlawing tracking entirely
there is simply no middle-ground solution that isn’t anti-user

what we have now is effectively a regression over the previous situation, which was that you could simply configure your browser to reject third-party cookies, and periodically delete the rest
you can still do that and get the same effect as when you deny the prompt for tracking, but unlike ads I still haven’t figured out an effective way to block out those annoying nags

fuck the advertisement industry

@osnews "Ghostery" extension can auto-close most of those "do you want cookies?" banners.