The Cookie Law: Just sod off and die, please
I'm sick of accepting cookies on every site I visit, on every single browser I use, on every single device I own, and this video sums up this useless law perfectly.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 14:38,
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I preferred it when no one asked - I wondered why b3ta now has tthat pink banner at the top before you log in.
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Legislation written by morons
I doubt if there will ever be a prosecution down to this
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 14:46,
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So it's the law now that websites have to ask before putting a cookie on your machine?
(I don't even know what a cookie, in the computer sense, means)
(, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 15:03, Reply)
I think it's a good idea
to make people more aware of all the shite that the datamongers store on your machine.
And you can't blame law makers for the average user being an illiterate moron.
And if you really want some privacy, this is a really simple way to prevent tracking and ad's spoiling your online experience without fancy ad/spyware blockers: winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
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Tusk knows where you live, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 15:10,
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What's so fancy about AdBlock
Install and forget
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simbosan is too tired, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 15:49,
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Tru dat.
It still eats processor time, thoug. And the above method prevents the shit even being looked up in the first place.
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Tusk knows where you live, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 16:21,
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Meh
Are you running a browser on a ZX81? What profiling did you do? How does AdBlock work? I bet it just blocks the ip address in which case zero traffic is incurred netting you less processor load. Not that I give a frying fluck
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simbosan is too tired, Thu 12 Jul 2012, 0:01,
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It won't make people more aware, though.
People will just click "accept" as a reflex action because they'll get so used to the pop-ups appearing on every site to tell them about harmless cookies.
Anyone using a cookie maliciously could easily obfuscate what that cookie does in so much jargon that it is meaningless to the layman but still complies with the law.
It would have made far more sense for browsers to be made to pop up an alert when a site uses cookies (which could then be turned off), rather than make every website get an annoying pop up whether people care or not and which assumes that every website owner is aware of the law.
Ultimately, most people harvesting data do not save it in cookies anyway.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 15:50,
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"It would have made far more sense for browsers to be made to pop up an alert when a site uses cookies"
I think every single browser since NCSA's mosaic has that option build in.
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Tusk knows where you live, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 16:19,
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They may do, but it isn't on by default.
(Presumably because no one wants it to be an in-your-face feature, so getting cookie information is quite a few clicks away.)
If the law is about making such information more visible, then that would seem a more sensible place to insist on it, anyway.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 16:26,
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Is it just me...
But all the sites that pop up a "do you want to accept cookies?" actually store a cookie with your choice? I.e. you can click "no" but it'll have to store a cookie with that choice? Or am I being thick?
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wideeye slightly pickled, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 16:49,
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No won't store a cookie
but the pop up will (well, should) appear every time. EVERY BLOODY TIME!
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 18:24,
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Yep, cos if it can't set a cookie, the server / page can't remember that you said know
Cos that's what cookies is for - remembering user's choices...remembering they have logged in...remembering what is in their shopping basket... etc
(, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 19:28, Reply)
Yeh just don't get it do they?
Well done, and what is it with the ones who make the rules that it never seems to occur to them that sometimes when they're completely out of their depth, maybe they need to ask someone who actually knows what they're talking about and learn to listen to them, not just go ahead anyway and make stupid knee jerk laws that will make NO FUCKING DIFFERENCE whatsoever 'cos they had no clue when they made them what it actually was for, to protect whom or to what end they were hoping to adjust the course of it to, fuck it just make a grand gesture and act like it's over.
Ad infinitum it would seem.
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..wil, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 21:03,
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