Post by @edri@eupolicy.social

2026-07-22 08:25 UTC

🍪 On today’s menu: a batch of banners nobody ordered 🍪 Take a pinch of manipulation, mix with endless pop-ups, bake until people are too exhausted to say “no”. That’s the tracking industry’s favourite recipe. As Europe debates the future of online privacy, there is a chance to replace today’s endless cookie banner circus with something much simpler: letting people express their privacy preferences once, for example through their browser or device, and requiring websites to respect that choice.

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@edri@eupolicy.social 2026-07-22 08:28

✊🏽 Together with @noybeu@mastodon.social , @beuc@eupolicy.social , @checkmyads, Civil Liberties Union for Europe, @eff@mastodon.social, Irish Council for Civil Liberties, @HomoDigitalisGR@mastodon.social, Digihumanism - Centre for AI & Digital Humanism, and Sustainable Computing Lab, we’re joining a campaign for a better recipe: fewer repetitive prompts, more meaningful choices, and privacy preferences that people can express once instead of being asked over and over again ➡️ https://killthecookiebanner.eu/

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@shaknais@mastodon.social 2026-07-22 10:19

@edri@eupolicy.social Most cookie banners aren't legally compliant. Why would changing the law, make them more likely to comply...? Noncompliant nagware is the point.

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@christin@lsbt.me 2026-07-22 12:29

@edri@eupolicy.social thats why chrislo.de has no cookie banners at all, no external requests, no tracking. It could be so simple.

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@Herman@mastodon.world 2026-07-22 21:37

@edri@eupolicy.social ❤️

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@Photo55@mastodon.social 2026-07-25 14:02

@edri@eupolicy.social now named "dickovers" and rebroadcast by the inventor of "enshitification".

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