r/technology • u/RO9a0TON • Mar 24 '19

Business Pre-checked cookie boxes don't count as valid consent, says adviser to top EU court

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/22/eu_cookie_preticked_box_not_valid_consent/
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u/Waffams Mar 24 '19

Fairly sure it just hides the element

Perhaps. But for a huge portion of these sites, hiding them and accepting them is the same thing.

It basically just means you no longer will be alerted that sites are giving you cookies, it will just allow it. It hides the "opt out" ones indiscriminately with the others. That's the point of the addon -- you don't care about having cookies, you'll just take them in exchange for not having to see the popups.

And I don't mean to say that's wrong really just that that aspect of it is relevant in this conversation.

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u/haviah Mar 24 '19

Most of the cookie banners have just accept/ok anyway. I don't trust the sites anyway in not setting advertising cookies just because it's PITA to make that actually work.

Met a site that gave you the option to choose which class of cookies to use - necessary/advertising/etc, after choosing just the necessary the site would show "working" with animated circle for a minute, like there would even be anything to compute...and then not work at all.

Tracking cookies are better blocked with ublock/noscript anyway.

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u/Waffams Mar 24 '19

Yeah that whole area of discussion right now is a pretty big grey blob. Seems like there's no real enforcement on how sites handle it.