Sweden Crunches Cookies

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Posted by michael on Friday July 25, 2003 @12:42AM from the chocolate-chip dept.

dillkvast writes "According to this article (swedish) at ComputerSweden swedish websites must now have the user's consent to use cookies. The law also states that the user is to be informed of what the information stored in the cookie is, and its intended use. This leaves swedish website with two options: No cookies at all, or a special page where the user is informed of the cookie use and can choose to either accept or reject the cookies. This represents a huge problem for swedish sites which use .asp and .php session variables, the article states, which will have to rewrite their sites to present the user with a chance to confirm that cookie use is ok. The law comes into force today."

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Clicking on the link... by Art_Vandelai · 2003-07-25 00:45 · Score: 4, Funny

results in 62 cookies being blocked by my browser. Seems these guys have a lot of work to do to comply with the new law :)
1. Re:Clicking on the link... by The+J+Kid · 2003-07-25 01:43 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Well then you must have answerd "yeeh" to the following:
  
  Du yuoo eccept zee fullooeeng egreement, in vheech yuoo let svedeeshcheff.cum lueds toons und toons ooff cuukeees streeet frum oooor brund noo oofee durectly tu yuoor veb soorffer fur nu epperent coose-a et ell?
  
  Didn't you realise?
  
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Misspelling? by upside · 2003-07-25 00:47 · Score: 2, Funny

"The law comes into force today"
Shouldn't that be "comes into farce"
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A special web page by A55M0NKEY · 2003-07-25 00:48 · Score: 5, Funny

A special web page where the user can choose whether or not to recieve cookies. What a good idea! All a web site needs to do is save the 'don't give me cookies' preference in a cookie and... wait.... Um.....

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The people of Sweden should by semanticgap · 2003-07-25 01:02 · Score: 0, Funny

...send a courriel to the government... Oh, wait, that's French...

Thank God I don't live in Europe!

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Re:mostly not a problem: by tirenours · 2003-07-25 01:08 · Score: 0, Funny

Will the choice of the user be remembered using a cookie?
And the Swedish Chef says... by djeaux · 2003-07-25 01:17 · Score: 1, Funny

I thuooght iferyune-a knoo PHP fells beck tu useeng URL-incudeeng iff zee user's brooser dues nut sooppurt cuukeees oor iff cuukeees hefe-a beee deesebled. Bork bork bork! Hoo deefffficoolt vuoold it be-a tu roon $_SERVER['REMOTE_HOST'] thruoogh a regex und use-a URL-incudeeng fur /\.se$/ ??
Bork bork bork!

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Re:Seems a bit harsh by Drathos · 2003-07-25 01:19 · Score: 3, Funny

IIS for Windows...
As opposed to, say, IIS for Linux? ;)

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Stupidity from the Swedes? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-25 03:18 · Score: 1, Funny

You just don't normally expect to see this kind of stupidity coming out of Sweden.
Re:Seems a bit harsh by thogard · 2003-07-25 05:22 · Score: 2, Funny

The US had its police state when it was run by England. Its the reason for most of the items in the Bill of Rights. Check it out some time, its got some interesting concepts.