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   Em :official_verified: (em0nm4stodon@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 20-Nov-2025 09:04:00 JST Em :official_verified:

   I feel this needs to be repeated 🍪

   The annoyance of cookie banners
   doesn't come from the regulations, but from the malicious compliance of the corporations who want to exploit your personal data.

   No data-harvesting cookies = No banner.
   Simple.

   My websites have no cookie banners,
   because they don't use any non-essential cookies and don't track visitors.

   Yours shouldn't either.

   #Privacy #Cookies #PrivacyLaw

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 20-Nov-2025 10:26:20 JST Rich Felker

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     @Em0nM4stodon Unfortunately I've even heard from people whose bosses made them add these banners *despite having absolutely no cookies or tracking*. 🤦

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     Simon White (snookerarmchair@snooker.uk.to)'s status on Friday, 21-Nov-2025 04:13:21 JST Simon White

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     • Jack Yan (甄爵恩)

     @jackyan @Em0nM4stodon I work on GDPR compliant no-consent tracking and it's hard to get right, but perfectly possible. Still gives useful stats. Respecting full "do not track" also easy to add on top.

     Cookie banners are very annoying to configure properly, it's way easier to just NOT TRACK and get on with things. Back office stats and qualitative user testing is easy enough to do and gets 80/20 UX sorted tbh

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     Jack Yan (甄爵恩) (jackyan@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Nov-2025 04:13:22 JST Jack Yan (甄爵恩)

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     @Em0nM4stodon Thank you! Only Mastodonians have liked what we have done. We’ve had no press interest, and our readers don’t seem to care one way or the other, but we know we’ve done the right thing (because this is the way we would like to be treated when visiting websites).

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     Jack Yan (甄爵恩) (jackyan@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Nov-2025 04:13:23 JST Jack Yan (甄爵恩)

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     @Em0nM4stodon Thank you! As a publisher, we donʼt track, but we did have some ads from networks that tracked. I made a commitment to our readers (not that any asked for this) that we would be tracker-free this year. I wrote to the ad networks to see if any would go along with this and got zero replies. So we removed all their ads. Now we just have ones we run ourselves with no trackers. Didnʼt seem particularly hard to do and I wish more would.

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     Em :official_verified: (em0nm4stodon@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 21-Nov-2025 04:13:23 JST Em :official_verified:

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     • Jack Yan (甄爵恩)

     @jackyan Everyone should follow this model. Thank you 🙏