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European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying (www.techspot.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Just don't remove it entirely, currently companies will at least pretend to comply.

bEFORE yOU cONTINUE tO gOOGLE sure is annoying though.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Remove banners, just make the companies respect the browser setting.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Please do remove it entirely.

I manufacture data about myself. Businesses want to collect this data for their commercial benefit and profit, without paying me. Cookie splash screens almost provide a method for this to happen legitimately, while still not providing me fair consideration.

Businesses should be prohibited from collecting user data, from taking value, without paying for it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How could you enforce a ban on any kind of user data and how could such a compensation system even work?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

A ban wouldn't work, because data collection is endemic. The cat is out of the bag.

Compensation could work through legislation and a commercial structure that dictates how things should be bought and sold. In Germany, rent is decided by the local town hall (Rathaus) on a per square metre basis. Such a system is not without flaws, but it's better than unfettered abuse by those who have against those who have not.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

I don't know where you have your ideas about Getman rent from but I assure you that, barring some rent-control, the German rental market is free.