On 2016-01-24 23:17 +0000, Go Linux wrote:

> Edward, are these sites based in the EU? If it's very little to do
> with brainwashing -- at least by the site owners -- and everything to
> do with a cretinous law forcing EU-based sites to warn visitors of
> cookies. Apparently, at least according to the politicians who handed
> us this mess, cookies are the latest and greatest security threat to
> web users. More so than government intrusion, man in the middle
> attacks, forged site certificates, hacking or other such trivia. :)
>
> Most sites are restricting themselves to a simple warning pop-up to
> comply with EU/national regulations (thus avoiding the remote threat
> of a prosecution) without getting in the way too much. Daft but true.

Not saying that the policy isn't idiotic - it is. But cookies provide
the first and most primitive way of tracking, and IMO tracking by
private entities is indeed a bigger threat than government snooping.
And I write this in lovely USistan, home of the brave and of the NSA.

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