The Senior Tory MP has called on both the government and Labour to show courage and admit that Brexit has failed

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    1 year ago

    Why doesn’t the EU stop doing protectionism and reform itself?

    You can see what the problem is every time you see the EU cookie notice.

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      1 year ago

      The cookie banners you see everywhere are an unintended consequence of GDPR, and new legislation is underway to make them less of a hassle. The intention of GDPR and it’s laws were 100% required and welcome.

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        1 year ago

        GDPR is an EU law, and cookie warnings existed before GDPR anyway, as a result of EU law.

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        Didn’t cookie laws come in before GDPR. They are pretty pointless as most people don’t understand what they’re saying yes to and most people who do already had their own ways of dealing with them.

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          They also force you to use cookies if you don’t want to see them over and over.

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            1 year ago

            Most browsers have security features that you can turn off. One option is allowing all cookies without being asked. If you are happy with giving every tom, dick or harry access to your PC then you have the power to do that.

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              Yes but when you see a cookie warning from a website it stores your choice in a cookie. So if you clear your cookies out then you see the warning again the next time you visit the website. So you don’t have much choice but to accept all cookies. Each website uses differently named cookies, so can’t simply solve it. There are extensions which try, like “I don’t care about cookies” but they break things and they have to have a list of websites. There will always be some which aren’t on there. The EU could have stipulated what the name of the cookie should be, or stipulated that it should be a browser option like “do not track”, but the EU is a massive corrupt bureaucracy.

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      The law: You can’t collect data without consent
      The intent: Sites stop collecting data without consent
      Sites interpretation: So I ask for consent right? right??