Europas Cookie-Albtraum bröckelt. Die Europäische Kommission möchte, dass Browser auf jeder Website Cookie-Einstellungen anstelle von Pop-ups verwalten.
https://www.theverge.com/news/823788/europe-cookie-prompt-browser-changes-proposal
Europas Cookie-Albtraum bröckelt. Die Europäische Kommission möchte, dass Browser auf jeder Website Cookie-Einstellungen anstelle von Pop-ups verwalten.
https://www.theverge.com/news/823788/europe-cookie-prompt-browser-changes-proposal
9 Kommentare
I fucking hate corporations. The reason we can never have nice things anywhere is because they KNOW how to take advantage of you, and if the legal letter of the law isn’t outright spelled out for them, they WILL work their way around it.
My browser can do that 🙂 Firefox leads the way
[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/)
[~~https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-about-cookies/~~](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-about-cookies/)
I never understood why we couldn’t have settings on a browser for all the sites.
Such a better solution.
I just have my browser set up to delete all cookies when I close the browser, and always ignore third party cookies. The only cookies that are persistent are from a small white list of sites that I want to stay logged into.
Expecting every website to conform to rules and try to police millions of websites across the world just doesn’t work. Too much work for small time websites to understand what the rules are and how they are supposed to be compliant with the laws.
The EU massively screwed their cookie law up. The initial version of it was going to ban all cookies until the first consultant they spoke to said „errrr, that means no internet banking and no e-commerce in the EU, is that what you want?“
I’ve noticed more websites saying you can only reject cookies if you subscribe to their content instead. I’ve seen it enough times to think it’s probably legal on some “well, we did give them an option to reject cookies” basis. If it’s just handled at browser level, it stops these kinds of bullshit shenanigans and the sites that make it as hard as possible to reject cookies.
If this gets rid of cookie banners, it was worth joining the EU.
Needs to be in the cookie spec tbh. The different types need to be defined by the dev if browsers will have any chance to identify essential vs. non
Just use private mode. Accept all cookies, and as soon as you end your session, cookies are deleted. If you also use a browser that randomizes your fingerprint, there’s little chance of cookies profiling you.
And yet I always end up rejecting cookies, even in private mode, and will actively avoid sites that present you with 200+ vendors that have “legitimate interest” and forces you to actively deselect each and every one.
“Legitimate interest” is an odd loophole. Advertisers have a legitimate interest in obtaining your data, so while you reject cookies for marketing, they still set a cookie for legitimate interest.