UK's New Cookie Law Is in Effect (But Lots Aren't Complying)

[JMcEntegart]

UK websites must now ask visitors for permission to store cookies.

UK's New Cookie Law Is in Effect (But Lots Aren't Complying) : Read more

 

[memadmax]

Glad I don't live in the UK....
Place is turning into a regulatory nightmare....
(the stuff they are doing to the internet is just the tip of the iceburg)

 

[jryan388]

I think this will annoy users much more than help them...

 

[Amen2That]

Even if a website adds the warning for cookies, I wouldn't trust it to be in compliance. I'd be a whole lot easier and safer (not to mention a lot cheaper for site operators) for users to just disable cookies in their web browsers. Besides that, some sites don't even bother with cookies to track you, instead they use a SID that's embedded in every link to track your progress through the site.

 

[cookoy]

i got a jarful of cookies on my pc, including sites i don't remember ever visiting. Good thing firefox has an option to let you view and selectively remove them. This will take a while. Or i'll just nuke them all.

 

[contentsmayvary]

What's with all the hard-of-reading folks who seem to think this is a UK-initiated law...

It's not. Try reading the article again. Duh.

 

[BWMerlin]

At least they are trying to increase privacy for users unlike the US who seems to be going out of its way to hunt down everyone at the whim of big business and government.

 

[blibba]

[citation][nom]john_4[/nom]A bunch of Fascists/Socialists is what they are with a camera on every corner.[/citation]

Socialists? I wish. If we were even nearly socialists we'd have the best living standards in the world, like Sweden and Denmark.

 

[Guest]

[citation][nom]cookoy[/nom]i got a jarful of cookies on my pc, including sites i don't remember ever visiting. Good thing firefox has an option to let you view and selectively remove them. This will take a while. Or i'll just nuke them all.[/citation]

No kidding, I run Ghostrey on Firefox - it's blocking 15 tracking cookies on Tom's right now. Just about the only site on the web that has zero is bbc.co.uk, but that's probably because they are socialists. Or maybe facists. Not sure...

 

[zaznet]

[citation][nom]contentsmayvary[/nom]What's with all the hard-of-reading folks who seem to think this is a UK-initiated law...It's not. Try reading the article again. Duh.[/citation]

It's not just the readers. Tom's has the title stating it is a UK law.

 

[eddieroolz]

I'm confused. On one hand Britain attempts to bolster privacy by requiring this cookie law. But on the other hand they attempt to pass surveillence laws.

What are they trying to do...

 

[eddieroolz]

[citation][nom]john_4[/nom]A bunch of Fascists/Socialists is what they are with a camera on every corner.[/citation]

Don't skip out on Grade 9 Social Studies my friend, and don't sling together some fancy words and post it on a forum.