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Marvellous!

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Thank you for pointing that out. I'll try to find the policy release where they say this is not necessary.

Which law? The 2002/58/EC doesn't.

You can enable session cookies only, even in the current UIs. Ditto for third-party cookies. Duplicating UI in a website is a solution looking for a problem. The web devs can nag the 0.01% who don't have cookies enabled, and leave the 99.99% who have them enabled alone.

It has never been enforced that way to my knowledge, anywhere in the EU. Which law or court decision says that it is actually illegal?

When everybody was running Windows on a smorgasbord of hardware / patchlevel / plugins / fonts, it was easy to fingerprint. Are we moving towards a more monolithic landscape where fingerprinting is less able to track individual users?

* If I have a fleet of Chromebooks running the same version of Chrome OS, will they all have the same fingerprint?

* Will, say, all iPhones 6 with the same hardware parts, running the same Mobile Safari and iOS version, have the same fingerprint?

Thank you!

The EU Commission and the regulatory agencies actually agree with you. The stupidity is 100% with the web devs and customers.

> Note that you can use your webserver logs for analytics and that doesn't require the cookie banner

In the EU, tracking user IPs actually requires consent. Even logging them does.

This is the kind of nonconsensual sureptitious user tracking that the EU privacy directive 2002/58/EC concerns itself with, not those redundant, stupid cookie consent overlays.

My point is that this will become the new social norm, much like now it is the norm to write short cryptic messages that readers may or may not understand.

That's a very good point. I would argue that insurance is a long-term relationship, it's a very mature industry, I don't expect there will be great savings in changing providers, and finding the best provider means doing due diligence and reading through dozens of small print — not something I would relish anyway. They're offering a 33% annual ROI. If they can guarantee an option to re-up for at least four years, we're good.

You should adjust the car alarm's settings. If you don't, and you happen to live in my neighbourhood, I have a stack of bricks in my back yard, one of which will just about fit through that hole in your windshield.

I'd ask them if I can install another one on the back door. If they're giving me free money, who am I to judge their motivation?

Brick-through-the-windshield tax.