🍪❌ With the Digital Omnibus, the EU Commission FINALLY wanted to get rid of cookie banners. However, Google and some of the very EU Member States that are actually calling for simplification – including Germany and France – are now standing in the way.

👉 In the Council’s latest position paper, the plan to abolish the cookie banner has been scrapped. This will likely cost European users a great deal of hassle, frustration and billions of clicks per year.

https://noyb.eu/en/eu-member-states-and-google-suddenly-want-keep-cookie-banners

@noybeu This reads like propaganda. Websites have no reason to use outside cookies ever and only prefer cookies when it is necessary to "remember" data for the current session.

So the hassle, frustration and billions of clicks are an instrument of said companies to get their audience riled up against the law - to them campaigning against their own interest.

Either this post is by a victim to this fraudulent behavior or a perpetrator of the shameful action.

@sarahroth We see this exactly the same. Ideally, websites do not track and therefore, there is no banner . However, under the current law, companies can ask if you want to be tracked – and they do so with all these "dark patterns". So in an attempt to at least get rid of these banners, the EU proposed to limit such requests to digital signals that happen in the background. We are surprised that even this improvement is now rejected by some EU Member States and industry players.

@noybeu @sarahroth IMHO, respecting the HTTP Do Not Track header should've been made mandatory.

First, cookie banners are not "perceived as excessive EU regulation", but as bad and unenforcable (unenforced?) regulation. There is a difference!

"the tracking industry is so terrified of consumers being able to simply say ‘no’ that, after a bit of lobbying, everyone gives in." -> if you expect the corporations to behave irrationally (i.e. not lobbying for their interests), you are going to have a bad time - as demonstrated by cookie banners. Why not put pressure on those in the EU who were bought by Google and Meta?

@noybeu

RE: https://mastodon.social/@noybeu/116798116428582650