As always, it’s not the technology that’s the problem, it’s the grifters running the show. Cookies are great for remembering what’s in a shopping basket, language settings, etc before you sign in and if those were the only kinds of things the sites were using they wouldn’t even need the Cookie banner. Remember the Cookie Banner is nothing to do with Cookies, and everything to do with commercialised mass monitoring.
Okay, so I’m going to copy-paste an answer I got from someone I know who works in a legal department:
Basically, Legitimate Interest lets them track you as if you clicked Accept All, then subsequently they can decide if they think you would benefit from the tracking by their own metrics, which includes things like targeted advertisting which, of course, they do. So “Legitimite Interest” really means “Reject, But Actually Accept”.
Not just “as easy” but “at least as easy”. The assumption should be that the user does not consent. And there have also been a few cases where the courts have - quite rightly - rules that “pay for privacy” offers aren’t good enough.
How is this a problem with the legislation? Do you honestly think your privacy was respected before the law demanded that websites tell you about how they violate your privacy?
Web browsers DO have this as a universal setting, Do Not Track, but websites choose to ignore it beacuse it doesn’t benefit them to respect your right to privacy and treat you with the respect due to a functioning adult.
The legislation was a massive win for everyone except the predatory manipulators.
Something, something, dihydrogen monoxide, something.
If someone approached me and told me they’re trans I’d say “don’t fucking talk to me. You’re disgusting.”
In fairness I say that to everyone.
I think NI is included as part of the UK and, if we’re being honest, it’s rare that they visit anything more than an hour from London or Edinburgh so having most of the rest of the UK is push too.
That’s the best bit about WSL (at least, version 2) is that it is a VM running a full version of Linux using Microsoft Hypervisor. There’s a bunch of drivers included that allow Windows and Linux to share filesystems and if you run Wayland/X apps in Linux they run on the Windows desktop.
Did you know…?
Is that how it works? Like a file-o-fax made of mortadella?
Old man yells at cloud.
Carmageddon had a glove with the severed hand still in it. Just saying.
It’s also been said that with Pi to just four decimal places you can accurately send a spaceship to one of our nearest neighbouring stars and arrive within one kilometre of your intended target.
In fairness, that was said by me, and I do tend to be full of shit.
I took a rental offroading in Death Valley once. Covered in chips outside; inside drenched in powdery talc-like dust; and utterly, comprehensively, entirely fucked suspension. The staff at the rental office don’t give a shit as long as it drives and can be rinsed off.
Emergency brake for an unforgettable quenching experience.
In twenty years all new digital projectors will have ports for USB-C, power, network and VGA.
The fact you’re getting downvotes to fuck shows, I think, how unrealistic a lot of people here are. Proprietary or open, a service lives or dies based on it’s uptake. Uptake requires marketing, marketing requires money, money requires investors, investors who aren’t going to spend their money on something that isn’t profitable for them and it’s hard to see how giving users control of their data and giving them the tools to turn their backs on abusive monoliths leads to profit as compared to, say, the exact opposite.
One hundred percent go for USFF. Even the cheapest, most basic processor will smash server roles because it’s not having to power desktop applications, graphics, window managers, etc.
A personal favourite of Michael Gorbachev if the old urban legend is to be believed.
Exactly. That’s why it’s so good, and also why the advertisers are trying to confuse people by whining about cookies. This is nothing to do with a specific technology, and entirely about respecting privacy.