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Nothing to make you marvel at the wonders of technology like a massive cookie consent dialog ON THE TELLY 🤡💩

A reminder that obnoxious, blocking cookie consent banners are not required by law but are there because tech companies had a massive tantrum at being prevented from tracking the bejesus out of you by default.. They don't need to be annoying or intrusive, companies can absolutely choose not to track, to track less, or make the consent experience easier, they choose not to 💩💩💩

Bealtaine Healy-Rae-Nua

@sue And unfortunately the EU has not revisited the law to go "NO, 'legitimate interest' does NOT mean what you're claiming, and a one-click 'Reject all but absolutely necessary cookies' button is now mandatory!"

@Tarbh @sue

It already is like that according to GDPR. I thought 8 years was a long time for people to read a short law.

@Tarbh @sue
The law says nothing about one-click buttons, but it does say that rejececting all but absolutely necessary cookies should be no harder than accepting cookies. So IF there is a one-click "accept all" button, there must also be a one-click "accept none" button. (Also, I guess keyboard navigation cannot require you to tab through the "accept all" button to reach the "accept none" button).

Which is good.

@Tarbh
That said, in Finland that's exactly what I see almost all local sites doing. It's only crap hosted by US tech companies or the international stuff that's fucking around. I think we'll get there, it's just slow.
@sue