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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: VentiLator on Tue, 23 November 2010, 12:59:36

Title: EU Web Cookie Regulation Law Crumbles
Post by: VentiLator on Tue, 23 November 2010, 12:59:36

Quote

title: Eu blabla
text: Europe blabla

when will they learn it?

Title: EU Web Cookie Regulation Law Crumbles
Post by: VentiLator on Tue, 23 November 2010, 13:08:29

Europe plans nothing. Europe is a huge pile of soil and water.

anyways, lol'd at the text :D

Title: EU Web Cookie Regulation Law Crumbles
Post by: quadibloc on Tue, 23 November 2010, 14:11:17

I would think that it shouldn't require a law. Just redefine the HTML standards so that conformant browsers can't have a cookie privacy setting lower than "ask me first before every cookie". Although that would be extreme in today's web, while cookies that are valid between sites can already be turned off by privacy settings, as they should be.

Title: EU Web Cookie Regulation Law Crumbles
Post by: mike on Tue, 23 November 2010, 14:40:28

Quote from: ripster;251178

The EU prides itself on being the vanguard regulation force in the world and fining large US Multinationals.

Well somebody has to :)

Title: EU Web Cookie Regulation Law Crumbles
Post by: Konrad on Thu, 25 November 2010, 00:01:51

Another utterly unenforceable law. Whatcha gonna do? Sue the cookiemakers? Press charges because they consumed 114 bytes of your emotional well being?
 
Besides, I like some kinds of web cookies.

Title: EU Web Cookie Regulation Law Crumbles
Post by: microsoft windows on Thu, 25 November 2010, 07:09:38

What has the EU done that actually helps anything?

I bet they're funded by all the anti-trust lawsuits they file.

Title: EU Web Cookie Regulation Law Crumbles
Post by: Konrad on Thu, 25 November 2010, 16:13:20

Quote from: microsoft windows;252259

What has the EU done that actually helps anything?

Well, there is RoHM, pretty good overall except now you can't buy 1,1,1-trichlorethane mumblegrumblebull****.
 
And they brought us Rammstein and Techno Viking.  And they legalized PlayStation mod chips.  Oh, even piratebay is the result of Euro Law.

Title: EU Web Cookie Regulation Law Crumbles
Post by: ch_123 on Thu, 25 November 2010, 16:18:08

I hear the EU is run by homosexuals and flag burners.

Title: EU Web Cookie Regulation Law Crumbles
Post by: Konrad on Thu, 25 November 2010, 16:43:40

The lawyers?