Fuck the cookie warnings on websites!

They don't do anything helpful and are just fucking annoying. Especially on some websites where they take up half og the fucking screen.

Blame the EU, personally I think it's silly.

Amen. I always see that warning on sites now - it seems so stupid.

Yup, I normally am OK with EU rules, they're pretty decent, but that one is just obviously not very well thought out and should be revised.

The biggest problem was that the EU mandated the rule but it was so unclear, no one really knew what they had to do to comply. Did visitors have the accept the prompt? Could sites get away with implicit acceptance? It is genuinely one of the stupidest pieces of legislation ever and obviously devised without the input of any technical experts.

@dfox It's a European law, everyone is required to do it on their sites here if they use cookies. The most retarded thing (they tested this on numerous sites) is that before you even click on the agree button, nearly am cookies are placed already so it hardly makes sense! I use an automatic cookie eraser (when i close a tab the cookies get erased) anyways though :P

@Artemix Do they at least use HTTPS though? :P

@Artemix That's good at least :)

Actually... The cookie banner tells you a website wants to do invasive tracking, like building a preference profile for better advertisements. Functional cookies, like login or returning visitor counting, do not need consent.

I too thought it was a stupid idea to have to warn for cookies, a sign politicians didn't understand jack shit of technology, but it turns out I was wrong and the (tech) media are portraying it wrong too. Almost everyone has this misconception :/

I mean, this forum is filled with people that like their privacy online, yet no comment here is positive of a law that demands people be warned. The law never even mentions cookies specifically, it's about tagging devices with identifiers for privacy-invading tracking, just like stalking in real life is illegal without consent.

@luc- Agree with you but i just didn't want to start a war!

Most EU laws and regulation tend to create severe headaches for a lot of companies. The cookies disclaimer is one which is quite tedious but not too drastic, unlike the fishing regulations that pretty much killed the fishing industry in the town i grew up in. But the new internet regulations that are in works in EU are worrying.

It's true not every website needs this, but the wording of the regulation is ambiguous on when exactly it is necessary so it could mean only for really intense tracking or it could mean for every cookie other than the session cookie essentially. Since people don't want to go through complicated and often expensive legal proceedings they it to implement this even if they don't necessarily be it, just to be sure

No one cares about them, everybody is annoyed by them, they should change this something else@luc-

@Letmecode yep, I'm familiar with clients having that impression. They usually understand why it's not necessary after a few sentences, even if I can't squeeze in education about avoiding sites with such banners.

@toosharchadha I agree that something else might be much more user friendly, but it was a good hope that website owners would want to avoid needing a banner and thus would move towards more privacy-friendly means of keeping statistics (which is all most website owners ever do with the data anyway).

By now it's abundantly clear that this is not the case and other solutions might be better, but I have yet to hear a proposal that makes both my user mind and privacy mind happier than they are with the current situation.

Annoying, but at least it gives a competitive disadvantage to sites, which abuse cookies.

Proper websites do not abuse cookies and so they do not need to use the warning.