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Analysis of economic and productivity losses caused by cookie banners in Europe

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332 points vegasbrianc | 1 comments | 14 Nov 24 22:23 UTC | HN request time: 1.175s | source
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snehk ◴[15 Nov 24 07:20 UTC] No.42144605[source]▶
The whole law should have been forcing sites to not ignore DoNotTrack bworser settings. It's a prime example of the EU being utterly useless because they don't understand the underlying issue and then choose a "solution" that's as much in your face as possible but doesn't change anything about the original problem. It's the whole plastic straw thing in digital form.
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1. jajko ◴[15 Nov 24 08:35 UTC] No.42144959[source]▶
Its lazy engineering. Most sites dont need such functionality, but devs are either incompetent to rip it out of libraries they use, are stuck in web design patterns from 20 years ago themselves or its a simple business decision to trade user data. When was the last time you really needed cookies for your business and couldnt get around it with (usually better) tech?

Dont blame the system (nonideal but darn good to be in place, compared to literally rest of the world where humans have simply less rights), when its companies failing knowingly basic rules.