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UK Cookie Consent Banners Draw Complaints
nk497 writes "Earlier this year, the UK's data watchdog the ICO started enforcing an EU rule that means websites must ask visitors before dropping cookies onto their computers. However, it was willing to accept 'implied consent' — telling visitors that cookies are used on the site, and assuming they were fine with that if they keep using the site. That led to banners popping up on every major website, including the ICO's site, warning users about cookies. Now, the ICO has revealed that many of the cookie-related complaints it's received in the past six months are actually about those banners — and the law itself. The ICO said people 'are unhappy with implied consent mechanisms, especially where cookies are placed immediately on entry to the site,' adding 'a significant number of people also raised concerns about the new rules themselves and the effect of usability of websites.'"
They're not Biscuit Consent Banners!
cookies enable some pretty good behavior on web sites
Right. If you don't block cookies using browser settings, the web site needs to store a cookie on your computer to remember that you don't want to store cookies!
and yet this is a skill most users don't posses.
Is the Google in my Internet? I don't think I have the Google. My Internet is Comcast.
you forget the subset of the population who does not fundamentally understand how to use google. Step 1. Go to google.com Step 2. Search for Yahoo. Step 3. Click on yahoo. Step 4. Search for gmail.
There Can Be Only One...
Dear Mom, I would give you all my moderator points if I had them. Now please stop using the computer. -Josh