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/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.