Programmer Humor @programming.dev MDFL @programming.dev 1 yr. ago

They tried

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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Any website that does that I just close the tab.
I refuse to go to sites that do this, I also refuse to go to sites that block adblock...and specially the sites that detect and block private browsing, that one shouldn't even be a thing
Cool. One less website to visit. Not like there is a shortage.
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.
Your meme is funny, but people genuinely use these arguments to be against sensible EU laws, hence the response I imagine.
Yeah being unable to open… checks notes local news websites from the US has been a real deal breaker
That's gotta be quite some website you visited, if it didn't load at all without cookies. As someone from Germany, who mostly rejects every sites cookies, except for the essential ones most of the time, but sometimes outright rejects all cookies, I've never encountered a website that refused to load upon doing that.

Not defending any webpages that do do that, just contributing my personal experience.

Also: this for chrome or this for fiefrerfx
That's fine. People who don't care about cookies will accept them anyway and those who do care about cookies will know not to visit that site anymore.
I feel like people would have responded to this meme better if you didn't depict the European Union as an NPC
Oh boo I can't visit American propaganda websites what a loss to my European life style
So far I’ve only seen small US newspaper who did this. Is anyone angry about this?
I generally agree with the statment under that image and it's certainly a funny meme but also Illegal, sadly the enforcment is a joke but that's not really the laws fault!
That's literally the point though...
Nearly all of these are illegal, but sadly there is little enforcement when it comes to this. (Tracking must be opt-in, not opt-out. Ignoring a banner must be interpreted as declining. Opting out must be a simple option, not navigating a complex and misleading menus. The users choice applies to any form of tracking, not just cookies...)
The second that popup about cookies shows up I immediately backout and not use the site.
This was not about cookies, but processing of personal data and new definitions of such data. Cookies was just an example.

By those laws, forcing user to consent with denying access to the service is declared illegal.
dumbest shit ever
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I don't give a shit about cookies my browser just cleans after me and next time i open it everything is like new.
Shrewd businessmen: 1

tyrannical big government: 0
Road to hell, good intentions and all that. Government fundamentally misunderstanding the role of cookies and the fact that browsers can handle user privacy with trivial effort by default rather than having every single website annoy the fuck out of you with a million goddamn notifications before actually showing you what you want to see.
Like I care. I've got a plugin that automatically accepts all cookies, and another one that deletes cookies when I leave the page.

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