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0 pointshappymellon1y ago0 comments

Me navigating to a webpage is far from consent.

How do I even know that you want to try and farm my personal data until I go there?

Perhaps you should put a click through gateway that states that "proceeding on to this website will sell your personal information to spammy, scummy advertising".

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GardenLetter271y ago

Setting a cookie isn't farming personal data.

You can configure your web browser to only send first-party cookies back and never set others. Or configure a subset of domains.

If you're worried about it you should be doing that anyway, since the cookies could be set despite the pop-up (or some websites might ignore the consent pop-up requirement entirely).

happymellonOP1y ago

Consent isn't required for setting a cookie.

You don't appear to know what the regulation is. The "cookie banner" isn't even about setting cookies, its data sharing.

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