No popup is required, just every lobotomized idiot copies what the big players do....
Oh ma dey have popups. We need dem too! Haha, we happy!
Oh ma dey have popups. We need dem too! Haha, we happy!
The regulations came along, but nobody told marketing how to do their job without the cookies, so every business site keeps doing the same thing they were doing, but with a cookie banner that is hopefully obtrusive enough that users just click through it.
Your choice to use frameworks subsidized by surveillance capitalism doesn't need to preclude my ability to agree to participate does it?
Maybe a handy notification when I visit your store asking if I agree to participate would be a happy compromise?
All I want is to not be forced to irritate my customers about something that nobody cares about. It doesn't have to be complicated. It is how the internet was for all of its existence until a few years ago.
And it happens to subsidize the tools you'd like to you use.
Whether you as a simple shopkeeper are aware of that or not doesn't change the equation or make anything buzzwordy.
None of that means that I should be FORCED to annoy my users with something that none of them read and none of them want to see.
It's like forcing me to click a "Accept" button every time I start my car saying I understand that my car is going to be recorded by the dash cams of other cars and traffic towers, probably there are cameras in billboards that will see me, oh and my phone's GPS is watching me, etc. etc. Nobody gives a shit.
There you go. Shopify does a bunch of analytics gathering for you. Whether you choose to use it or not, the decision was made by someone who thought it would be a value add and now you need a banner.
You could use localStorage for the purposes of tracking and it still needs to have a popup/banner.
An authentication cookie does not need a cookie banner, but if you issue lots of network requests for tracking and monitor server logs, that does now need a cookie banner.
If you don't store anything, but use fingerprinting, that is not covered by the law but could be covered by GDPR afaiu