GDPR Cookie Banners
Discussions correct misconceptions that EU GDPR requires cookie consent banners for all cookies, clarifying they are only needed for non-essential tracking and analytics, with sites blamed for unnecessary or malicious implementations.
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You know those "cookie banners" are illegal under GDPR too, and done specifically to annoy people into agreeing?
No, these cookie laws are in fact really well implemented, they are just oversimplified in the press (such a coincidence). Cookies are not forbidden neither they require you to ask anything, as long as they are useful to the service you provide.That's why a lot of websites don't show those banners while however using cookies to store session tokens, user preferences...But, yes, when you are browsing content without being logged in or without having the need to store someth
Just so you know, despite what might've been best intentions, your cookie banner is not compliant with what the law in the EU says. Consent for tracking has to be free, in other words, even if a user doesn't consent, they still have to be able to use the site. You don't need consent for functional cookies and never have.
Cookies are allowed, tracking users without consent is now illegal in EU (regardless which technology is used).
They dont need consent for cookies. They need consent for tracking
Laws don't force the cookie banners, laws force requiring consent for personalised tracking. Banners as we know them are malicious compliance. There's a difference.
That cookie banner is mostly corporations trying to be sneaky and trying to trick people into giving consent, or just flat-out misunderstanding the regulation.You need no cookie banner if you only use cookies as required by the service you provide to the user.For instance if a user is trying to log in, you don't need to ask for permission to set a cookie for that. The consent is implicit.If you want to set tracking cookies on the other hand...
It's not the EU's fault that you have to click cookie banners. Those banners are only required if a website plans to do malicious things with the cookies. If they're used to track who's logged in, they are not required.They are more akin to the "Do not eat" warnings on silica packs... except on the internet everyone swallows.
Only consent is needed for cookies that aren't strictly necessary.https://gdpr.eu/cookies/If a site is asking for consent, they're either idiots who don't understand what the law requires of them or they intend on tracking their users.
Only consent is needed for cookies that aren't strictly necessary.https://gdpr.eu/cookies/If a site is asking for consent, they're either idiots who don't understand what the law requires of them or they intend on tracking their users.