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EU May Outlaw Cookies

Posted by timothy on from the use-tasty-apples-instead dept.

Millennium writes: "According to Yahoo News, The European Commission is considering a privacy directive which, among other things, completely bans the use of cookies. Forgive me for saying so, but considering all the legitimate uses of cookies, isn't banning them outright going just a bit too far?" Update: 10/31 19:21 GMT by M : The submitter's write-up is wrong. Read the story. Keep in mind, as usual, that a "news" story whose sole source is an executive with an agenda to push is unlikely to portray the situation accurately.

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  1. Cookies by utdpenguin · · Score: 3, Funny

    Cookie monster will be SO disapointed!!!


    And I hate to disapoint a monster. It's dangerous


    You tell him . .. .

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  2. Yeah! Ban the cookies! by mfarah · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... and, while we're at it, ban the cakes, too. And the spanish cocas. And all kinds of biscuits. And pretzels, too, just in case. It's easier to forbid the food that's Bad For You than to pass a directive requiring all european citizens to go on a diet.

    I just can't help buy wonder what will Cookie Monster say about this: "When cookies are outlawed, only outlaws will have delicious meals", or something like that.

    Oh, you mean software cookies? Oh...

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  3. But think about the children by loraksus · · Score: 5, Funny

    What will we do when cookie monster is removed from the cast of Sesamee Street?

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  4. About time! by nowt · · Score: 3, Funny

    Those hockey pucks my english mother-in-law makes should be outlawed!

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