The EU cookies warning pop-up - yuk

Impetus

While they may have thought it a good idea to warn idiots in the past about the use of cookies, the EU cookie warning has become the biggest, most annoying, time wasting, spam intrusion on the net. It is repeated over, and over and over ad infinitum.

My hatred of EU bureaucracy goes up x2 on every website that I come across on the www that imposes this on me. As does my hatred of companies that impose the measure in more than under-stated ways.

The cookie pop-up really outlines how dumb the EU has become. Along with the national and EU politicians who allow such stupid interventions to continue.

markpb

Agreed. It was a well intentioned law that was always going to be difficult to structure. Sure people need to know that their internet actions are being tracked by marketing companies but every website blindly telling you something that you can't make an informed decision about is useless and possibly counter-productive.

Impetus

markpb wrote: »

Agreed. It was a well intentioned law that was always going to be difficult to structure. Sure people need to know that their internet actions are being tracked by marketing companies but every website blindly telling you something that you can't make an informed decision about is useless and possibly counter-productive.

And a waste of click time/effort. There are so many cookie type systems in use ranging from the "traditional" thing in your browser to snooping devices on servers that finger-print your PC (eg what screen resolution you use + operating system + various driver data, and screen size, and patch numbers etc, not to mention flash version installed. Internet users are being screwed on privacy and most are clueless and the EU time wasting warning will make victims none the wiser of the detail.

Impetus

For some reason (dozyness again in gov services) there is no warning about Windows 10 and the 13 screens of "privacy" settings. And the Brussels blows-ins have done nothing to force Microsoft to stop transmission of the serial number of the operating system to MS (even when customers have said "no" to every setting).

These nasty EU un-civil servants have done zero to protect Europeans against US snooping/privacy breaches on every day law abiding citizens. These people are paid large salaries and even larger pensions in return for their work negligence.

Why is such political/administrative corruption allowed to continue?

Stuxnet

There is a pretty good third party filter option that can be enabled in Ublock Origin adblocker if you use it, under the tab third party filters > Regions & Languages > Prebake - Filter Obtrusive Cookie Notices‎ ...enable this

Doesn't solve the actual problem, but some might find it useful