My browser already denies cookies. Why are they turning a mess into a bigger mess.
There are legitimate uses for cookies. This means that your browser sending DNT flag has to be respected while a website can remember that you’re logged in already.
There are legitimate uses for cookies.
Yes. On a case-by-case I sometimes allow them till browser closes.
The technology to do all these things have been here for decades. This whole farce is such a waste of time, attention, money.
They could have always respected this setting rather than doing popups btw.
Honestly, what “nightmare”? Who gives af about a popup. If it bothers you so much just use an extension that auto-declines them.
I want corpos to not track people on the internet and I think the GDPR regulation has been broadly a godsend in that department, I love exercising my rights to my data.
Which is exactly why EU is about to roll back many of the GDPR protections. https://www.dw.com/en/eu-plans-to-ease-gdpr-laws-and-ai-constraints-in-major-shift/a-74792773
Yeah, corporate regulatory capture is a plague everywhere. Capitalism, man.
I used sub-title because Americans tend to treat this like the end of the world while ignoring that it was an act of malicious (and unnecessary) compliance.
Yeah it’s weird AF how some Americans blame european governments and not their corpos who have collectively chosen to do popups instead of finding alternative ethical business models.
Even my own government (Belgium) does those popups. This is not solely a “bad american” thing.
Is the website outsourced to a private company?
No. For example this is the website we need to use for tax reasons: https://www.minfin.fgov.be/ full screen cookie window, doesn’t work if you have an ad blocker.
In order to authenticate yourself on the previous website they made this: https://mygov.be/. Also full screen cookie window. To then lead you to a download that only works on non-rooted android or apple phones. This is a NextGenerationEU project. This is the EU’s vision for it’s own digital future. It sucks embarrassingly hard.
Well honestly then I don’t know, you win
From what I can find, they use Google Analytics to track website visits and it’s why they have cookie popups, but beyond vague statements I can’t find anything about why they want this data in the privacy policy.
My best bet would be that they can track how many (unique) people use the site and how often they use it and for what so they can ask for appropriate financing from the federal government come budget season, that’s also why the NHS uses it.
The website looks very nice so I’m fairly certain it’s made by a private third party, at least in the UK everything that can be privatised/outsourced, is, even private companies often hire some other company to make their website, so I have no proof.
I don’t know, you win
Neither of us is a winner here. This whole legislation sucks for everyone involved.
can track how many (unique) people use the site
We have to authenticate with a government ID in order to use those applications. So they have all the information to count unique users even without google tracking.
