<story><title>Google fined €150M, Facebook €60M for for non-compliance with French legislation</title><url>https://www.cnil.fr/en/cookies-cnil-fines-google-total-150-million-euros-and-facebook-60-million-euros-non-compliance</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EtienneK</author><text>Or just be like Github which has no cookie banner since they only use essential cookies.</text></item><item><author>johnklos</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s a shame there aren&amp;#x27;t more big fines for shitty sites, like stackoverflow.com, that punish people who don&amp;#x27;t accept all cookies by prompting on every visit.&lt;p&gt;If that&amp;#x27;s not bad enough, having an &amp;quot;Accept all&amp;quot; button but requiring another click to have the option of refusing, then making us manually select each category to turn off, then confirming, is certainly not symmetric.&lt;p&gt;These large sites know exactly what they&amp;#x27;re doing. They&amp;#x27;re hoping people will become fed up enough to just accept, or they&amp;#x27;re hoping there&amp;#x27;ll be enough accidents where people click &amp;quot;Accept all&amp;quot;. It&amp;#x27;s rather shitty.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>I mean that&amp;#x27;s the obvious solution, which for some reason most companies seem to forget about. I&amp;#x27;ve done a number of projects where we had to rush a cookie banner, but with a lot of them, if they just did away with Google Analytics or click tracking or whatever, they wouldn&amp;#x27;t need any of it.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google fined €150M, Facebook €60M for for non-compliance with French legislation</title><url>https://www.cnil.fr/en/cookies-cnil-fines-google-total-150-million-euros-and-facebook-60-million-euros-non-compliance</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EtienneK</author><text>Or just be like Github which has no cookie banner since they only use essential cookies.</text></item><item><author>johnklos</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s a shame there aren&amp;#x27;t more big fines for shitty sites, like stackoverflow.com, that punish people who don&amp;#x27;t accept all cookies by prompting on every visit.&lt;p&gt;If that&amp;#x27;s not bad enough, having an &amp;quot;Accept all&amp;quot; button but requiring another click to have the option of refusing, then making us manually select each category to turn off, then confirming, is certainly not symmetric.&lt;p&gt;These large sites know exactly what they&amp;#x27;re doing. They&amp;#x27;re hoping people will become fed up enough to just accept, or they&amp;#x27;re hoping there&amp;#x27;ll be enough accidents where people click &amp;quot;Accept all&amp;quot;. It&amp;#x27;s rather shitty.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lrem</author><text>Follow the spirit of the law? CRAZY TALK!</text></comment>