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This is a normal post 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
 (I helped save b3ta! Tusk knows where you live, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 15:10, Reply)
This is a normal post What's so fancy about AdBlock
Install and forget
 (I helped save b3ta! simbosan is too tired, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 15:49, Reply)
This is a normal post Tru dat.
It still eats processor time, thoug. And the above method prevents the shit even being looked up in the first place.
 (I helped save b3ta! Tusk knows where you live, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 16:21, Reply)
This is a normal post 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
 (I helped save b3ta! simbosan is too tired, Thu 12 Jul 2012, 0:01, Reply)
This is a normal post 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.
 (I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 15:50, Reply)
This is a normal post "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.
 (I helped save b3ta! Tusk knows where you live, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 16:19, Reply)
This is a normal post 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.
 (I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 16:26, Reply)