Sorry, cookie banners are a direct result of EU legislation, it really is that simple.
While your "evil data broker malicious compliance conspiracy" narrative is a popular one, especially on this website, that doesn't make it true and you've offered zero facts to support it either.
I've dealt directly with multiple companies in regards to this legislation, and know exactly why we made the decisions we did based on the legal advice given in each instance.
But I will not argue further. You want this conspiracy narrative to be true as it plugs into the tapestry of religious narratives that form your identity. Any facts or logic I can offer against this are no match.
However, could you not agree that moving forward, a centralized browser-based setting is the better solution for all parties involved?
> Sorry, cookie banners are a direct result of EU legislation, it really is that simple.
Please write to me the relevant part of the legislation that require a full screen cookie banner that requires you to manually click "no" on each of the 1000+ "partners".
> you've offered zero facts to support it either.
Ah yes, and you've provided a lot of support to your "cookie banners as we see them implemented by literal ad business industry groups are the result of the legislation"
> and know exactly why we made the decisions we did based on the legal advice given in each instance.
Oh, I do, too. The legal council is "since you insist on using fifteen different marketing tools each relying on tracking, we have to include these banners developed by the advertising and tracking industry to cover our assess".
> You want this conspiracy narrative
Once again: it's not a conspiracy theory. It's literally done in the open.
> could you not agree that moving forward, a centralized browser-based setting is the better solution for all parties involved?
GDPR has been around for 9 years now.
Somehow, world's largest advertising and user tracking company that incidentally makes the world's most popular browser came up with exactly zero proposals to do that.
In the same time they have come up with at least three to keep tricking people into tracking. The latest one was literally "how to build a more private web? by turning on tracking" https://x.com/dmitriid/status/1664682689591377923 ("no thanks" in those screenshots turns off data sharing and tracking)
But yes do tell me how this blatant open flaunting of user privacy is "conspiracy thinking".
Edit: also please tell me whether "we're creating a user profile on you, collect device identifiers and precise geolocation information, and storing that data for 12 years" is conspiracy thinking and the direct result of GDPR?
While your "evil data broker malicious compliance conspiracy" narrative is a popular one, especially on this website, that doesn't make it true and you've offered zero facts to support it either.
I've dealt directly with multiple companies in regards to this legislation, and know exactly why we made the decisions we did based on the legal advice given in each instance.
But I will not argue further. You want this conspiracy narrative to be true as it plugs into the tapestry of religious narratives that form your identity. Any facts or logic I can offer against this are no match.
However, could you not agree that moving forward, a centralized browser-based setting is the better solution for all parties involved?