Posted on 05/25/2018 6:44:33 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Too many U.S. sites that refuse to operate if you don’t authorize cookies.
Personally I block them.
>> The BEST thing is simply not to do business in the EU <<
IMHO, that would be second best. The best thing would be for the USA to have a new law that specifically immunizes U.S. citizens, resident aliens and companies against lawsuits arising from the GDPR.
You should enable cookies. They are harmless. Tracking you doesn’t require cookies anymore.
That would still not stop the EU from making trouble. Just block them. The best risk management strategy is to avoid the risk.
Is this what Bertelsmann Arvato is up to, or is some other outfit/government entity doing the policing?
“They are harmless.”
Harmless huh !!!
How many times does one webpage set cookies and another unrelated site uses them to plant ads in your face.
Google will do this with terms you search for and then enable google ads at another site to ‘feed; off that info.
Makes he run lots of no-script pages.
I’m not gonna get lathered up about this. Use of info gathering cookies doesn’t help my life at all. Screw those papers.
I see it differently. Blocking nosy companies’ tracking cookies is a good thing.
The average person doesn’t even know what a cookie is nor how they work.
I even get ads that play audio without my permission. No way to stop ad. Browsers no longer give you a ‘stop’ button that will serve any purpose.
I used to use mapper.acme.com all the time, then they turned to the darkside.
“Companies face enormous fines if they’re not in compliance with the data protection rules that have been laid out, which include providing more information to consumers on how data is being collected on them, and forcing companies to delete old data that’s no longer being used... Under the new rules, lengthy user license agreements also must be in plain language and easy to understand.”
Tell us what they collect? Delete old data? end the 50,000 words of legalese user agreements?
The horror...
No kidding. Written by a drone?
WTHeck?
Would this affect FR readers abroad, I wonder? Or, will it in the future?
You didn’t read the rest of my post. I said they don’t need cookies to track you. Lots of means to embed data into web pages to track you.
Too most of us lay people, the term cookie means: tracking element or tool. Yes, you are likely correct, I’m sure the newest browser are full of backdoors to our information. This is out of hand and must be stopped if I am going to stay online.
We don’t collect any data from our users other than what’s necessary for direct operations. And we don’t share that data with anyone. We have a one page user agreement for posters written in plain English. If our European users wish to read or post, they’ll have to do it in English.
I’m for protecting the average person’s right to get on the internet with privacy.
Of course, there should be ways to flag illegal activity.
Are some of you proposing that the New York Times, goog, MS, or any other mega corporation or any leftist site should have unfettered access to your personal information, your political views, much less your shopping habits?
Be careful what you wish for; you might get it.
Thank you Jim. That’s why this is the only site I post on.
A cookie is simply a little text file used to keep data between your browser sessions. If you close you browser the cookie is remains. This allows web sites to keep you logged in, or to know your preferences for their site.
Cookies can only be returned to the web site that created them. FR uses cookies. It is how FR can keeps you logged in when you reopen your browser. FR asks your browser for the FR cookie that has your account name.
Unfortunately, cookies were used to track people. Third party advertising companies asked website owners to insert information that lets the ad company track you. Ad companies track you because the website owner opens their cookie and hands the data off to the ad company. Since so many site do that the ad company knows what sites you are interested in and can target ads to you.
However, there are loads of ways to do the same tracking that do not involve cookies and are much more reliable.
BTW, my FRiends, this is why I post the following sites for protection. I don’t get ads reflecting recent puchases or anything in particular. Sure they know who I am, where I live, etc., but it lowers one’s profile.
You can download the free versions, or get extra protection by paying on the following sites: (There are more, but this is a primer for beginners)
Ccleaner www.piriform.com
superantispyware.com
And the most important: spyware search and destroy
www.major geeks.com (update and immunize as frequently as updates become available, like today)6.1.2 s.t. like that.
Unfortunately, privacy was not explicitly mentioned in the COTUS, at least to my knowledge. Maybe the 4th Amendment?
What do you think?
“These poor Europeans have built and live in their own prison.”
And they’ve done it with American money! We coddled Europe with our troops to protect them essentially at our expense, which has allowed these ungrateful a$$holes to promulgate Socialist/Marxist governments. Unless they want to immediately start paying their agreed upon NATO contributions, I’d be for removing America and our troops from their current “duty” to protect Europe. And the next time the Germans decide to start another world domination gig, we should let Europe take care of it themselves.
Yes, but there are “hidden bad cookies” that track you and you cannot remove them except with special programs designed to find hidden cookies and delete them. Please See above. Thank you.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.