Google To Update Cookie Consent Banner in Europe Following Fine (techcrunch.com) 32
Google has shared a screenshot of its new cookie consent popup. At first, the new popup will be available on YouTube in France. But the company says it plans to roll out the new design across Google services in Europe. From a report: This updated design comes a few months after the CNIL, France's data watchdog, fined Google $163 million at today's exchange rate for breaching French law. According to the French authority, Google failed to comply with current regulation when it comes to presenting tracking choices to users -- what people usually call the "cookie banner" or "cookie popup."
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Sigh (Score:2)
Just tell us which country we should use in our VPN. :-)
One country censors porn, another one shows warnings, where does it end?
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Depends. Do you want to be tracked? Then not France.
One little detail... (Score:4, Insightful)
Betcha that if you select 'all cookies' you are never asked again for that website, whereas for all other options the banner comes up every time the site is visited.
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Of course you are asked again after selecting "Reject all". And, unfortunately, it will continue like this.
Because when you reject cookies, the computer does not store information for the next visit. How is the web server supposed to know that you have already rejected the cookies? Not asking you again would be an indication that they are storing cookies, or actively monitoring your activity in some other manner.
What we need is a web API that allows to "Accept all" or "Reject all" cookies, and that the con
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DNT: 1
Google and others will keep breaking the law by ignoring it.
Re:One little detail... (Score:5, Insightful)
GDPR is a privacy law, not a cookie law. It doesn't say "no cookies allowed." IANAL, but I doubt the law prevents them from setting a cookie that said NO_MORE_COOKIE_POPUPS=1 or OPT_OUT=1. If they actually cared about not nagging people, they would suppress the popup if the browser sent the do not track header [mozilla.org].
The reason this behavior will continue is because those sites make money off tracking you. So until the business model changes, the behavior will remain.
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Functional cookies are allowed without a permission request. GitHub is a great example - no cookie request because they don't use them for tracking, only for functional stuff like logging in.
The banners are probably illegal too. GDPR recital 32 says that requests should not be unnecessarily disruptive. Blocking use of the site until the user decides is unnecessary, they could just have a link on the site that says "click here to opt in to tracking".
https://www.privacy-regulation... [privacy-regulation.eu]
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But it also doesn't REQUIRE them to use those cookies and not asking over and over again.
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Much easier than that.
Accept all,
Reject all, and
Reject all (storing choice on this computer as a cookie)
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That is incorrect. Permission is not required for functional cookies, such as one noting that you rejected non-functional cookies. Google does set such a cookie and does not show the message again.
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No, you are in fact allowed to store the specific cookie with the purpose of storing which cookies are accepted or rejected.
Re-asking if you want to decline after declining once is an evil pattern. It MUST be equally easy to accept or reject, and re-asking declined consent contradicts this specific clause.
mod parent up please (Score:2)
Exactly
Yahoo, do you have $163 million? (Score:4, Insightful)
Because when I click to read the article, I'm greeted by an illegal Yahoo cookie popup. It's illegal because it has a big green button to "Accept all", but I would have to wade through a labyrinth of settings to reject all. You're next, Yahoo.
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Any French speakers out there? (Score:2)
Not speaking or reading French myself, I can't tell what was false or misleading in the old version that's would be "fixed" in the new version. Of course, it's not like cookies are anything that haven't been around and easily managed since forever. So I don't know what one could write that could fool someone when it comes to them in the first place.
Re:Any French speakers out there? (Score:5, Informative)
It is illegal to make accepting all tracking simpler than rejecting it. The change is from "personalize | accept" to "more options | refuse all | accept all".
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Amusing (Score:1)
Amusing that you cannot read the article without being forced to accept a GUID cookie from advertising.com, luckily the edge firewall caught their sneaky/underhand tactic, i bet most slashdotters didn't even realise they had been 302'd through an advertising company before reading the article.
scum
Auto-accept or auto-reject (Score:4, Insightful)
Please, please
Implement a web API that allows to "accept all" or "reject all" automatically, without manual intervention. And implement a browser option to set this option to either value. We are all so tired of nag screens.
Firefox, you are our only hope here. Please stop the random changes to the UI you are currently planning (for sure), and implement this. We will all go back to use it.
Re: Auto-accept or auto-reject (Score:3)
That's an awfully cumersome way to spell " Do Not Track".
Sadly, I've ever only seen one website properly honoring the DNT settings and defaulting to the user's wish for their cookie options.
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Althout there are addons like i-don't-care-about-cookies or similar (mentioned by other commenters), these just accepts cookies - hardly an ideal position from a privacy stand-point.
Much better is the Consent-O-Matic [mozilla.org] addon (also available for Chrome I think). It allows you to customise which categories you want to accept or reject and tries to apply that to standard cookie layouts that are common across multiple sites.
It's maintained by researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark and until there's an indus
Cookie Banners are anti-competitve (Score:2)
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It makes it look like you're doing something risky when you are not.
Oh?
Chrome extension to bypass these popups? (Score:2)
No acceptance or decline.
If I were a Social Media Giant (Score:1)
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This would indeed open the marked for new and probably smaller players with a safer offer.