Sites cannot force cookies on users and it is bad business. Best to be nice and ask people to join a vibrant community
Rejecting cookies now costs money. Is this even legal? at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy_bZhKAUgc
The “our way or the highway” has been around for many years. But in recent years, particularly the last year or so, more sites are using cookie challenges that allow “set preferences” with “reject all”. I have been tracking the Internet for the last 26 years. The waste of time on cookies and the vast waste of time site owners writing and maintaining cookie banners is disgusting. I certainly did not say sites could not offer “reject”. No two countries have standard rules for the Internet. No two companies do it the same. It ought to be one set of rules (and tools) for all sites. I cannot force anyone, no one else cares to even monitor. Many sites always ignore browser settings to “reject all cookies”. When they should invite, not challenge.
The most practical approach is “NO COOKIES unless someone registers – asks to join the site community”. If a person buys from a site, that does NOT mean “set cookies” unless they plan to “join the site community”.
Every site pays to make cookie banners, contact forms, newsletters, join, feedback, report errors, ask for help with an account or transaction, etc etc etc. So every site is different, forcing users to guess the proper path (if one exists) for every site. Nothing is stable and consistent. I call it “everyone doing their own thing”. No government site does is consistently over one site, certainly not over many. No com or org or any domain now is consistent within or between sites.
Sites in gov or any large corporation they are NOT consistent along any business process pathway. And many large sites have dozens of major pathways that are not integrated, do not talk to each other, cannot keep consistent records, cannot resolve conflicts. It is VERY BRITTLE and any serious events can cause whole segments to crash because of too many untraceable and unmonitored and effectively un-managed dependencies.
When a microsoft can no longer see the whole of what its Internet is doing and they could throw a lot of money at it – you know it is getting bad. Now small errors of one person in any large corporation, agency, organization – can inject so many cases of simple failed transactions, each taking hours to correct, there is not enough time to fix it. Just like a hurricane that damages so many parts of the power system, there are not enough work crews to fix it over night, so weeks can go by (Houston had that with the last hurricane, the same process can happen with a mistake in email that cannot be corrected without humans by a large online sales organization that might start with A)
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Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation
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