Hacker News Reader

Comment by la64710 | Hacker News Reader

Europe’s requirement of those pesky cookie notices have killed the joy of surfing the net. Every goddamn site has this stupid cookie popup show up. It is like playing whack-a-mole. They should have instead only allow necessary cookies and marketing and other cookies should be part of signing up for a specific service and not just visiting the website. The thought is noble but the implementation sucks.

View on HN

EU requirement was to inform users on how the data collected about them will be used and give them a choice.

Cookie notices was the industry response, ignoring the spirit of the law and complying at a minimal rate

If this is how the industry is complying the law was poorly written no?

> The thought is noble but the implementation sucks

And you know who does the actual implementation, right?

This is mostly a case of malicious (arguably non-) compliance.

it most cases it's not even arguable

Cookie notices > having tracking cookies enabled by default with no easy way to turn them off

Cookie banners are a brain-dead, malicious compliance way of evading the actual goal, which was to reduce the needless use of tracking and analytics cookies. AFAIK, if you only use cookies strictly when they need to be used to make your application work, you don't even need the banner.

try easylist-cookies. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23521399

With the right plugin (both mobile and desktop), you can automatically opt out, something that wasn't possible before. And larger ad companies actually enforce compliance here (where possible).

> Europe’s requirement of those pesky cookie notices have killed the joy of surfing the net

This is like blaming the dentist for your tooth pain.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com