Cookie's required a lot these days

A fairly recent phenomena. What caused it? What started it? I never got these kinds of things before maybe a few months ago. Now almost every website I visit requires me to accept cookies. It just seems odd that all of a sudden, overnight, virtually all websites decided to pop up a message requiring me to allow cookies. How did that come about; one website did it and it caught on like wildfire? Weird. And annoying. Browsing the web is becoming more annoying all the time, with constant popups, ads, cookie demands, etc. I spend almost as much time closing those windows than I do reading what I was looking for! If it keeps getting progressively worse, as it has been doing, they will be shooting themselves in the foot. People will stop visiting their websites.

Who thought it would be so hard to give away cookies! :slight_smile:

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I’m guessing that the EU’s GDPR has come into enforcement and rather than creating multiple sites depending on where the user is accessing it from, the GDPR sets the data privacy standard and gets applied to everyone.

https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/12/10/18656519/what-are-cook…

Phaz

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The article linked below might explain the recent increase in cookie pop-ups as well as a possible solution

Excerpt:
because of recent privacy regulations like GDPR and CCPA, many websites are now required to tell you how they use cookies when you visit their site.

https://blog.getadblock.com/adblock-version-4-21-0-block-coo…

Excerpt:
because of recent privacy regulations like GDPR and CCPA, many websites are now required to tell you how they use cookies when you visit their site.

Stated another way, they have been using cookies all along; what changed is that they tell you now.

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Stated another way, they have been using cookies all along; what changed is that they tell you now.


...and who ever "reads" the TOU/TOS/whateveryouwannacallit?
We've been told all along, no one ever reads!

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Thanks guys.