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0 pointsSpivak2y ago0 comments

"The EU didn't force cookie banners, they just made it so that companies have to choose between the banners and their revenue, conversion tracking, and business metrics."

Whoever's bright idea that forcing an annoying banner on users was going to make any company currently employing tracking think even for a microsecond about not tracking needs to have their head examined.

Because you employ tracking you're legally obligated to make someone else's life more annoying is a brilliant piece of legislation.

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ceejayoz2y ago

> "The EU didn't force cookie banners, they just made it so that companies have to choose between the banners and their revenue, conversion tracking, and business metrics."

You don't have to choose between those.

Revenue tracking is clearly necessary; `SUM(total) FROM orders` hardly violates the GDPR. Conversion tracking can be done in an anonymized fashion, or via things like coupon codes. Plenty of business metrics left to go on.

The EU correctly decided the balance of things was too far in the corporate direction versus the consumer direction.

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