It’s really fun to explore, no two spaces are alike, and lots of nooks and crannies. Definitely in my top 5 favorite buildings on campus and in Cambridge.
I've come up with an easy solution, which works almost all the time. When a cookie consent dialog interferes with me using the website, I close the tab and move on.
I've found a high correlation between cookie consent notices and low-signal content, so this strategy has actually saved me a lot of time I would've spent reading/watching something that doesn't help me.
But to the flights example, I was just looking for flights starting at Google Flights, which doesn't have cookie banners, and the two sites I went to for booking also did not have cookie banners.
Which booking website are you going to that doesn't have cookie banners? I spot checked multiple EU and US airlines just now (Ryanair, Air France, United, Alaska) and all of them had a cookie banner.
That’s certainly possible. I don’t deny occasionally clicking them. I just don’t bother most of the time.
Edit: I just tried the flight ordering flow again (starting at google.com/flights) in a private/incognito tab, and did not encounter any cookie banners.
> any site with a cart or user prefs should have a cookie disclosure
In the name of all that is holy!
Once again....
You are free to use whatever cookies you want to run your site with no need for "cookie banners". HOWEVER, if you are using those cookies to track me (advertisers take a bow) then you need my clear, opt-in informed consent to do so.
I remain utterly astounded at the ignorance some tech people have of the GDPR; a vital privacy law and one that is fundamental to modern data use and respect for the customer.
You can gather statistical data for an "app" (meaning software installed on a users personal device holding that holds their private data) without tracking users or invading their privacy.
User preference cookies generally do not require consent under most privacy regulations, including the EU’s GDPR and ePrivacy Directive, as long as they serve a functional purpose directly requested by the user and are not used for tracking or profiling.
my point is that it's ambiguous, even gdpr.eu says otherwise, and it's so unclear that app developers err on the side of caution. It's nothing to be smug about. All of these seemingly capable people struggle with it .
Sure, if they don't make it everybody else's problem.
Not to defend MS too hard, but they supported Windows XP with security updates for 18 years. At some point software needs to be "finished", and once it is, all responsability falls upon the user.
The enterprises with competent IT that will airgap their XP machines to keep running the control plane for their factory probably "know better" than MS, the power user who refuses to use a Linux distro for their Pentium 3 box or who will disable Windows Defender and run random scripts on the internet to "debloat the OS" without understanding it, or the ones who run LTSC and then complain that their games aren't working - they all absolutely don't know better, but unfortunately they tend to be the louder voices in the conversation.
I disagree. If there is a fundamental architectural issue with the current platform that is getting in the way of progress, the right thing to do is to fix it.
By ‘progress’ I mean compatibility with new innovations like DirectX or some new instruction set that enable dumb things like transparency, or spacial audio, as well genuinely useful things.
You simply can’t bolt that onto an 18 year old system without breaking things irreversibly.
It also means depreciation of insecure ways of doing things. MS’ attempt to get TPMs into every desktop is clumsy, but it serves a greater good.
None of those things require W11 to operate, but I can see why they needed to make it look fancier than W10 to convince people that it’s somehow ‘better’.
> None of those things require W11 to operate, but I can see why they needed to make it look fancier than W10 to convince people that it’s somehow ‘better’.
It has the opposite effect. People do not like the fancier look.
It also depends on what you mean by progress. if it is genuinely better for customers why do you have to force them to use it?
One of the reasons I like Perl is because of its high committment to backwards compatibility.
I like PHP because it's so easy to set up an installation of my app, but the breaking changes have bit me hard in the past, so I try to minimize its use.
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