The Official DOOM: cookie popups and consent requests online

[AtW]

"UK to overhaul privacy rules in post-Brexit departure from GDPR

Culture secretary says move could lead to an end to irritating cookie popups and consent requests online

Britain will attempt to move away from European data protection regulations as it overhauls its privacy rules after Brexit, the government has announced.

The freedom to chart its own course could lead to an end to irritating cookie popups and consent requests online, said the culture secretary, Oliver Dowden, as he called for rules based on “common sense, not box-ticking”.

But any changes will be constrained by the need to offer a new regime that the EU deems adequate, otherwise data transfers between the UK and EU could be frozen.

A new information commissioner will be put in charge of overseeing the transformation. John Edwards, currently the privacy commissioner of New Zealand, has been named as the government’s preferred candidate to replace Elizabeth Denham, whose term in office will end on 31 October after a three-month extension."

https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...ture-from-gdpr

[BlasterBates]

So looks like the days of e-mail spam from which you can't unsubscribe will be returning.

[Paddy]

So looks like the days of e-mail spam from which you can't unsubscribe will be returning.

In the USA, they have a right to Spam under the pretext of free speech

[AtW]

So looks like the days of e-mail spam from which you can't unsubscribe will be returning.

Those days never ended

[ladymuck]

Those days never ended

This is very true.

[tazdevil]

Good, there are very few websites that are useful without cookies or the server storing state data and constantly having to react to popups is a pain

Data protection is also a farce and used by companies to hinder and not protect the user

[ladymuck]

I think the cookie thing could be better implemented. I do like being given the choice of whether I accept just essential for function or the whole lot but there are occasions where I just want to quickly look at something and don't want to be bothered with it all.

I find the best way to get around that is to set my browser to delete all cookies on exit and just have a couple of sites where the cookies are kept because I'm too lazy to re-enter log in details.

[AtW]

DONOTTRACK was the right way to do it - law should have required not tracking those who chose such mode in browser, but that would upset srrious business interests so they came up with massive red tape that never was meant to fit declared purpose.

GdPR should be scrapped completely

[vetran]

Ever since I bought Viagra to please Nuttina for more tan 10 seconds I get loads of spam - strangely everyone thinks I need an enlargement?

Strange I get no spam on my personal or work mail, maybe paying for spam scanning is worthwhile?

[AtW]

Strange I get no spam on my personal or work mail, maybe paying for spam scanning is worthwhile?

No spam emails, ever, not a single one?

I guess this claim comes from the same place as "I fix structural problems daily", ie - vetran level bulltulip.