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He's not the guy who is collecting data. He's the guy whose data is being collected. And I agree with him. True choice is not imposing this cost on everyone. Let me set it in my browser. Then I'll consent to practically everything and you can consent to nothing. And since it's set at your user agent you can synchronize that across devices easily.

If I never see another damned cookie popup I'd be thrilled.

>>renewi+(OP)
The cookie law is just insane to me. GDPR, or at least the parts that are commonly talked about, seems a lot more reasonable: a user should be able to request what data is being collected about them, and should be able to request a full account deletion, including deletion of all data collected from or about them (perhaps minus technical things that are very difficult to purge, like raw web server access logs).

>>meowfa+31
> a user should be able to request what data is being collected about them, and should be able to request a full account deletion, including deletion of all data collected from or about them (perhaps minus technical things that are very difficult to purge, like raw web server access logs)

I think I'd find it very easy to like this. Honestly, these aspects of GDPR are great. Things I don't like:

* Not allowed to do "no service without data"

* Consent must be opt-in

Bloody exasperating as a user. At least if they'd set it in my user agent. But the browser guys just sit there like fools pontificating on third-party cookies instead of innovating for once and placing the opt-in / opt-out in the browser.

>>renewi+E1
Is this not what the DNT (Do Not Track) header was attempting to achieve before it was essentially abandoned (after being implemented in all major browsers)? Genuinely curious what sort of user agent approach you're looking for.

>>mcpeep+j9
Actually, I've changed my mind. I think people fall into either the advertiser+publisher camp who don't want this in the browser chrome because it will make it too easy to full opt-out and the browser guys don't want it there because they actually just want the advertisers to die out. What I'm asking for is not a stable equilibrium in any way so it's a pointless thought experiment.

>>renewi+E1
How is the first exasperating you as a user?

>>icebra+Xh
Pretty sure I'd get an option of "free X more articles if you give us your data to sell". Not getting that is annoying because I was fine with giving away my data for articles.

>>renewi+(OP)
The problem is that imposing the unsafe choice (aka tracking being on by default) puts people who'd rather opt out at risk (because their data is being leaked), while the current situation merely puts an annoyance to people who are happy to opt-in.

As far as the cookie popups go the majority of them are not actually GDPR compliant. Tracking should be off by default and consent should be freely given, which means it should be just as easy to opt-in as it is to opt-out. If it's more difficult to say no than yes then the consent is invalid and they might as well just do away with the prompt completely since they're breaking the regulation either way.