EDIT: I didn’t realize the anger this would bring out of people. It was supposed to be a funny meme based on recent real-life situations I’ve encountered, not an attack on the EU.

I appreciate the effort of the EU cookie laws. The practice of them just doesn’t live up to the theory of the law. Shady companies are always going to find a way to be shady.

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I’m pretty sure breaking your website with no cookies is against the rules, actually. It’s either serve the EU with GDPR-compliance or GTFO entirely.

Yeah, you could still just break the law, but as usual there’s a cost to that one way or the other.

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this. and honestly I wish more websites followed the “serve under gdpr or don’t have a European marker”. A random blog once wasn’t available in the EU because of GDPR. And you know what? It’s better than them violating GDPR and the EU doing nothing.

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Tons of companies break the cookie law already, but enforcement seems to be rare

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Doesn’t enforcement work by letting competitors sue you if you don’t follow the rules for these things?

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What’s the cookie law?

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10 points

No cookies before dinner.

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If websites want to track you through cookies, they have to ask for permission.

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The cookie consent banner has to allow you to opt out of cookies as easily as accepting them

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I’ve heard stories about some of the big guys getting hit with sizable GDPR fines. I don’t really know the full extent of what they do but I do imagine there’s someone that makes it their job to prosecute GDPR violations.

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It’s more about the big boys. If they act in a way that breaks the GDPR, now the EU has a stick to hit them with.

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