The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect in May 2018 and requires that companies obtain explicit permission from individuals to utilize their data. Since the GDPR became enforceable, the number of third-party cookies found on news websites in Europe declined by 22%, according to a study by Reuters Institute.
Between April and July, Reuters researchers analyzed about 1 million content requests from more than 200 news publishers in the EU. They found that the number of third-party cookies used per webpage declined from about 80 in April to about 60 in July.
[Ed note: I use the "Cookies Exterminator" add-on for Pale Moon that, except for my white-listed web sites, removes all cookies after something like a 15-second delay. How do you keep your cookies under control? --martyb]
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Friday August 31 2018, @04:57PM (1 child)
Some people dislike anything done by the EU government...or possibly even by the EU member states. This provides them sufficient reason to dislike the GDPR. You can recognize them because they never can find good reasons that they are willing to publicly admit for their dislike...unless you consider "they're foreigners!" to be a good reason, as many will admit that.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 31 2018, @05:38PM
It's a manner of "buyer's remorse" where they can only justify their own shitty system by ranking on another.