As always, it's not the technology that's the problem, it's the grifters running the show. Cookies are great for remembering what's in a shopping basket, language settings, etc before you sign in and if those were the only kinds of things the sites were using they wouldn't even need the Cookie banner. Remember the Cookie Banner is nothing to do with Cookies, and everything to do with commercialised mass monitoring.
Okay, so I'm going to copy-paste an answer I got from someone I know who works in a legal department:
Basically, Legitimate Interest lets them track you as if you clicked Accept All, then subsequently they can decide if they think you would benefit from the tracking by their own metrics, which includes things like targeted advertisting which, of course, they do. So "Legitimite Interest" really means "Reject, But Actually Accept".
Not just "as easy" but "*at least *as easy". The assumption should be that the user does not consent. And there have also been a few cases where the courts have - quite rightly - rules that "pay for privacy" offers aren't good enough.
Something, something, dihydrogen monoxide, something.
I think NI is included as part of the UK and, if we're being honest, it's rare that they visit anything more than an hour from London or Edinburgh so having most of the rest of the UK is push too.
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Is that how it works? Like a file-o-fax made of mortadella?
Old man yells at cloud.
Carmageddon had a glove with the severed hand still in it. Just saying.
It's also been said that with Pi to just four decimal places you can accurately send a spaceship to one of our nearest neighbouring stars and arrive within one kilometre of your intended target.
In fairness, that was said by me, and I do tend to be full of shit.
The UK is currently experiencing some prolonged windy weather and my all-renewable energy provider offers dynamic pricing. That means cheap energy and even negative-cost energy. This is where my HA instance shines and saves me a fortune on my power bill. Thanks again to the HA devs for this incredible project.
For the curious, I'm using bottlecapdave's excellent Home Assistant Octopus Energy integration via HACS.
I'm on an electricity tariff with dynamic pricing. The last week has been pretty rough in fairness, but generally it's really rewarding on most days and sometimes, on days like this, it's amazing.
Based on my past calculations, whenever the cost is below ~20p, I'm paying less for heating than I would with a gas boiler. Where the cost of energy is negative, I'm essentially getting paid to use surplus energy.
These water fountains flow constantly with fresh drinking water for anyone to use and they are everywhere in Rome. Covering the spout with your finger forces the water out a hole on top, creating a arch of water at perfect 𝓼𝓵𝓾𝓻𝓹𝓲𝓷𝓰 height. The Romans were/are with us.
The apartment blocks - two of perhaps a hundred - are surrounded by open greenery, wide walkways and dense tram networks. Most of them have café bars, bookstores, grocery stores or the like on the ground level and loads of benches, play areas and exercise equipment dotted about. The place is rife with Third Places.
The remarkable thing about these is that, to the locals, they seem fairly unremarkable.
Exactly. That's why it's so good, and also why the advertisers are trying to confuse people by whining about cookies. This is nothing to do with a specific technology, and entirely about respecting privacy.