The stupid EU cookie law in 2½ minutes

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Most European websites just became illegal due to a new EU law on cookies. We look at what the law means for you, and what you can do about it.

Written and narrated by Oliver Emberton, founder and owner of Silktide. This is my first ever video, would love to hear your comments as I plan on making more!

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• cookie law
• EU
• cookies
• websites
• privacy law
• eprivacy law
• Silktide
• Oliver Emberton
• ICO
• stupid law
• funny

[mikee1504]

First off, a pop up is not the only solution and secondly it is not EU websites that need to comply with the law it is any website targeted at a EU audience (Even US based sites). I can run a website, host it in the UK and target the US market and I will not have to gain consent at all. All I would have to do is prove my content is not targeted at EU audience (Or block it if they threaten to fine).

This is my interpretation of the law and may be wrong. Either way its a badly implemented law.

[silktide]

You're absolutely correct it affects any website targeting an EU audience. Many different solutions are currently presenting themselves including popups and bars at the top of the site, either have to be eyecatching enough for the user to see and click to consent, without ruining their user experience. Both are annoying for the user.

[KeepItFresh02]

LOL this has got to be a joke. 

[silktide]

Sadly not. It's a real law :-(

[f1r31c3r1]

When i say malicious i refer to the persistent cookies that when you delete them they get put back automatically by a malicious script. That is seriously not a friendly use of cookies now is it? The fact that someone made a script to do that for cookies should tell you something. If they were harmless why make a persistent script to constantly put it back after the user deliberately deleted, removed it.

[f1r31c3r1]

cookies are commonly used as a way to compile long-term records of individuals' browsing histories, a major privacy concern that has prompted European and US law makers to take action. This small paragraph does not take much to understand for most people. Do some research on how the FBI track trace and research how they deal with the common problem of pedo's. Someone else on another post said cookies were needed to track pedo's and check what sites they visited and gather browsing history etc.

[KurtisICT]

The only people that see that kind of detail is your ISP, and they have absolutely no control of cookies. You need cookies for most site's stability, you're probably even using one now for YouTube and being logged on to post your stupid comments. Targeted ad cookies are set by the advertisers, and are only 'tracked' when a website had an ad-placement from the same advertiser on their page. As for the 'FBI' part of the comment, what on Earth are you on about?

[f1r31c3r1]

Who cares if the link does not turn red or whatever colour after you visited it. Who cares if you visited horsecum dot com seriously thats the computer users business and no one else's so seeing all forms of tracking weather cookie or not banned is a damn right good thing. Dont even bother say oh but the pedos! From what i can gather from FBI released info Pedos tend to use MSN and facebook. Probably some odd underground thing going on with that i dont know.

[f1r31c3r1]

Charming, these insults are a sign of ignorance lol. The Internet will do just fine without them. The business web may have a problem but who cares about them. There just capitalistic money making worthless dayrobbers. The web and all its free information, sharing and so on would work perfectly well without. Not all cookies are bad this is true but private usage data needs NOT be logged. No one else needs know what anyone does on there computer including what they browse

[KurtisICT]

... You are an ignorant fool. Malicious? LOL! You do realise cookies are simple little text files that only the server (or a 'website' to you) that has placed them on your computer can read, right? They're pretty useful, and the internet as a whole would loose its stability if you took cookies out of the equation.

[heza121]

New video title: how to ruin the Internet and make it stupid by the EU

[geronimo4372]

the law is good.

it will bring endless spying activity to reality - spying after people is an offence, not a business.

unfortunately, it incorrectly attacks the instrument, not the "hand" holding that instrument.

[thohangst]

I thought I'd run this copy by you: "This web site uses cookies, like every other web site of consequence on the planet. Cookies are files stored on your computer that web sites use for a variety of purposes. By clicking OK, you are agreeing to allow us to use cookies, including the cookie that will tell us that you clicked OK when asked if it is OK to use cookies. WARNING: We are not responsible for any false sense of security you may experience by now sort of knowing what a cookie is." OK?

[thohangst]

When the aliens arrive, I don't think anyone from the EU ought to represent the human race. Ok, no one from any governing body in the EU, that's fair, right?