Coming to a website near you this summer: the European Commission is close to a ‘solution’ that could force people to use their government-issued ID to get online. EDRi and EFF’s concerns about threats to everyone’s privacy and data protection, a chilling effect on access to information, and digital exclusion – harming the already most marginalised in society - remain unsolved.
The problem with the cookie law wasn’t the concept of it, it was the EU’s failure to crack down on malicious compliance.
They should’ve revised the law to make it opt-out by default.
If you make it opt out by default, They could just design the software to not let you enter the page unless you opt in. Often get the page opt out get a nice advertisement for the service.
Even using cookies to help with load balancing is a pain in the ass these days. There’s a fuck ton of legitimate reasons to use cookies, If you want to stop tracking, Make it illegal to track people and sell advertising data based on it.
A massive number of people would just not engage with the website if that happened, and they’d give in very fast.
Agreed. The sentiment was fine, the execution terrible.