Just ban the sale of any kind of adtracking. That way we can get rid of the cookiewalls too.

Missed opportunity by the EU when they wrote GDPR.

> Missed opportunity by the EU when they wrote GDPR.

Not really.

There are legitimate reasons why I might wish to be tracked or give my personal data to a company. As long as I'm asked to give clear, opt-in informed consent, this is perfectly fine. This is the very essence of the GDPR!

Instead, direct your ire to the scummy adtech industry who are constantly asking to invade my privacy and smell my knickers trying to work out what I ate for lunch. Another law to ban the adtech industry would be welcome from me, though would meet fierce resistance from the likes of Google.

The GDPR is well written.

	▲	wolvoleo 2 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> There are legitimate reasons why I might wish to be tracked or give my personal data to a company. As long as I'm asked to give clear, opt-in informed consent, this is perfectly fine. This is the very essence of the GDPR! In thise cases they don't even need to ask for your permission. > Instead, direct your ire to the scummy adtech industry who are constantly asking to invade my privacy and smell my knickers trying to work out what I ate for lunch. Another law to ban the adtech industry would be welcome from me, though would meet fierce resistance from the likes of Google. No, the EU should have done more to prevent this. They didn't want to kill a billions-of-euros industry. But they should have.

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troupo 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

GDPR literally prohibits the sale of user data and tracking without user consent (because yes, you want to give people the possibility to opt in for a variety of reasons).

GDPR has literally nothing to do with cookie popups. That was, and is, adtech

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em-bee 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

prohibits [...] without user consent

that's what causes the popups.

it should prohibit it outright, consent or not.

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SoftTalker 2 hours ago | parent [-]

But the only reason the popups are needed is the adtech tracking cookies. You don't need a popup for cookies that are related to essential site functionality.

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em-bee 2 hours ago | parent [-]

yes, so if ad tracking is forbidden outright then asking for permission to do it is invalid too.

	▲	GJim an hour ago \| parent [-]
		We certainly do need another law to ban the adtech industry..... Though no doubt that would prompt a _shitstorm_ from Google, Elon and chums.

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pocksuppet 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think they are saying GDPR did not ban websites from noisily asking for consent and trying to trick you into giving consent.

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lotu 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

My job was building cookie walls in response to GDPR. It might not have been the “intent” but it certainly was the consequence of that law.