On 5/30/2014 2:11 AM, Mike Cardwell wrote:
* on the Thu, May 29, 2014 at 10:40:24PM -0400, Michael Wolf wrote:
Anyone else noticing slashdot, google, and a few
other big ones i can't recall, now throwing annoying
popups with 'hey, we're using cookies, click to agree
to this' ? What new legal groupthink bs is behind this?
It has to do with some law in the EU[1] that apparently isn't
enforced[2] (at least in the UK). It is actually a few years old.
Myself and a few other people have been slowly building an Adblock
filter list to remove these cookie warnings from sites for about 2
years now:
That's good, but how will blocking the "cookies required" pop ups or
redirected page notices help, when many sites largely *won't work,*
unless cookies are allowed (at least, 1st party)?
I've encountered quite a few sites (not 100's) where pages won't even
load until session / temp cookies are allowed. 3rd party cookies are
blocked.
Generally, I delete these 1st party cookies as soon as the page / tab is
closed - which is kind of a pain. If these 1st party cookies (used
today) were not deleted, not sure they'd pose any privacy threat, like
3rd party cookies.
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