There’s one thing this site gets wrong. And it’s central for their mission to correct that. Because I guess everyone else does get that wrong, too. Very likely including those guys who do the profiling (although their wage probably depends on not realizing that mistake):
You do not need cookie banners to ask for consent to set a cookie. You are required to ask for consent to process people’s information, to profile them, stalk them, fingerprint them. Cookies are one of the ways to do that. But not the only way.
This site - as basically every other site using ad providers - did all of this without asking for consent, but was required to ask. At least for visitors from the EU (like me). It didn’t matter that they didn’t use any cookies for it. They need to ask and they need to respect a rejection. It’s also not ok to do it and just say that everyone else does so, too.
That’s the message that should come across. Not “hey look what we can do without cookies”. It’s “hey, cookies are a scapegoat. We don’t need them. We’d have to ask for consent but since everyone is so preoccupied with cookies, we just didn’t. Like all this ad tech companies spying on you didn’t ask, too. They should be held accountable.”
There’s one thing this site gets wrong. And it’s central for their mission to correct that. Because I guess everyone else does get that wrong, too. Very likely including those guys who do the profiling (although their wage probably depends on not realizing that mistake):
You do not need cookie banners to ask for consent to set a cookie. You are required to ask for consent to process people’s information, to profile them, stalk them, fingerprint them. Cookies are one of the ways to do that. But not the only way.
This site - as basically every other site using ad providers - did all of this without asking for consent, but was required to ask. At least for visitors from the EU (like me). It didn’t matter that they didn’t use any cookies for it. They need to ask and they need to respect a rejection. It’s also not ok to do it and just say that everyone else does so, too.
That’s the message that should come across. Not “hey look what we can do without cookies”. It’s “hey, cookies are a scapegoat. We don’t need them. We’d have to ask for consent but since everyone is so preoccupied with cookies, we just didn’t. Like all this ad tech companies spying on you didn’t ask, too. They should be held accountable.”