Personally I had hoped that law would mean sites are discouraged from using cookies unless they are absolutely necessary, but that doesn't seem to be the case. I think sites are choosing to continue finding ways to annoy their users rather than just not using cookies where it's not necessary. On the other hand the EU has done something pretty stupid there.... easier to restrict what cookies can and cannot be used for than to force them to put banners on their site.

On Sunday, January 24, 2016 11:17 PM, Go Linux <golinux@???> wrote:
> On Sun, 1/24/16, david@??? <david@???> wrote:
>
> Subject: Re: [DNG] Ad filtering and blocking
> To: dng@???
> Date: Sunday, January 24, 2016, 1:18 PM
>
>> Thanks for your reply. I am noticing that since some time ago websites
>> are starting to 'brainwash' users to use cookies. This is often done
>> by displaying a high contrast banner at the top threatening that by
>> using their website one MUST also enable cookies.
>>
>> Is there a way to avoid this new 'cool feature'?
>>
>> Edward
>
> 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.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave H
>
> --------------------------------------------
>
> I do a lot of custom element blocking in AdBlock which works very well -
> no popovers and/or overlays and or nag bars allowed here. But sometimes I
> have to resort to stylish . . .
>
> golinux
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