New EU Law set to Rerquire Cookie Consent

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BBC News - New net rules set to make cookies crumble

I'm I the only one who thinks this is going to turnout to be a bit of a nightmare.

They set these laws with little regard for the impact it will have on businesses, no debate just BANG, new law starts May 25th apparently.

This annoys me on so many levels, even if I weren't marketing on the web the idea that we need popup boxes constantly asking for our permission when we're surfing.

I seems that this will require each site that engages in placing cookies on the users browser to ask "explicit permission". It's not hard to imagine that after some time since this will become very irritating that browsers like FireFox will probably offer an accept all cookies or deny all cookies option. Which will lead to a huge increase in untrackable traffic.

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I've reposted this in the lounge, if admin can please delete this.