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I am not sure where i stand on this. On one hand the notices are annoying but on the other hand "Don't like what i am doing? Don't use my site." feels like a legitimate option. That the average end user would rather install a camera on his toilet than lose any kind of convenience is a sad fact but it's also not my problem. Yeah, i am an elitist ass. So what?
Yeah, i know it's wishful thinking. Specially for fingerprinting. It's not only extremely hard to defend against it's also extremely inconvenient. Hardly any end user would do it even for money. Still, i see the problem in education. End users need to realize that the technology they use is not only something they don't understand but something that's also quite hostile to them. The right decision for most people would be to not use it or at least only use it sparingly and with extreme caution. That being completely unrealistic i have little hope overall.
This isn't how human decisionmaking works (or can work), due to social pressure. That's why the GDPR exists, to provide a baseline of guaranteed rights such that people cannot be (indirectly) coerced to give up their rights. Same reason we have other human rights legislation.
I agree that more and better education is needed, to be clear. I just don't agree that it's an either/or situation; it doesn't take away the need for legislation against malicious actors.
Completely agree that GDPR is well intentioned but poorly implemented.
We have made changes to our privacy policy and other agreements. Annoying but nothing compared to the cookie bar dilemma...
Rightly or wrongly (probably wrongly), before GDPR, we didn't have a cookie bar at all. The only cookies we use are analytics - GA and Piwik. We've just added one, as slim as possible with just an ok button to dismiss it. I suppose the "right" thing to do would be something that requires a user to choose which cookies they want and actively opt in to analytics cookies.
Aside from the fact that this would make our analytics effectively useless (which is a big deal because we spend a lot on Adwords and are always trying to improve our conversion rate), it is really really annoying to have to click through a form just to browse a website and I would rather not put our visitors through that for their own sake.
Thoughts on this?
I use this for my own browsing... https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/i-dont-care-about-cookies/fihnjjcciajhdojfnbdddfaoknhalnja?hl=en