European Union Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders recently told German newspaper 'Welt am Sonntag' that the European Commission is aware of how annoying cookie consent banners have become...

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  • smileyheadEnglish
    9·
    10 months ago

    There are no cookie banners, at least not nessesary ones. There is just a consent requirement for processing personal data.

    • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
      22·
      10 months ago

      Um, what? Almost every consent banner I’ve seen has specifically asked about cookies, and usually nothing else.

      • smileyheadEnglish
        41·
        10 months ago

        This is a misconception many sites fall into. They really do not have to ask for just cookies, it’s like there were asking to use CSS or JavaScript :).

        • NoRodent@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          10 months ago

          I like my websites RAW, they’re not going to spy on me with those cascading styles and I do not want anything to interpret HTML for me, I will interpret it according to myself and not according to how some corporation wants. Wake up sheeple! /s