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Comment by Isn0gud | Hacker News Reader

Cookie prompts is the best example of bad faith compliance. Please inform yourself and don't spread this narritive further.

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https://gdpr.eu is an interesting site to visit on the matter, surely they have the best and most compliant implementation.

https://i.imgur.com/Ftuv74P.png

IMO if anything it's the opposite. EU could have made law to respect DNT header if they wanted privacy but they won't because it would hurt "their" companies. Instead they tried to be super vague and preferentially sue companies who they have qualms with and the companies which they could get money from.

My previous company hired a lawyer from EU for sorting out GDPR, and even according to him the law didn't prevented all things which hurts privacy like a normal person will assume.

I am once again posting the EU official site using cookie pop-ups https://european-union.europa.eu/index_en

>The 3 types of first-party cookie we use are to: >(...) >gather analytics data (about user behaviour).

Well they do collect user data using third party services. A bit disappointing, but banners seem to be necessary in this case.

Quoting OP

> Cookie prompts is the best example of bad faith compliance

If cookie prompts are used by both by the official EU and GDPR sites then that was clearly the intent of the law.

You can’t argue with cookie prompt lovers. They love clicking on those useless buttons.

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