Why Your Site is Now Illegal in Europe

What do you think about this? Have you already edited your pages?

another bullshit right from the government!

Since I don’t like to start a political discussion I’ll continue on the technical point of view:

If I’m not allowed to use cookies I’ll use localStorage and send information with ajax. Maybe disallowing JavaScript has more sense cause cookies are only textfiles and cannot get executed

So i have to inform my users that i’m storing a cookie variable to determine if my website’s menu was was closed or opened before refresh?

This is madness!

revaxarts said
another bullshit right from the government!

you can’t deny that simple users are tracked online by various services without one knowing who are they and what information they collect.

at this exact moment on themeforest we are analyzed by Google Analytics, New Relic and WebTrends

Yes those are analytics services used by envato for obvious reasons, but the normal user user doesn’t know they even exist. I know what the purpose of those website are, at least officially, but 99% of the internet users have no idea about them, what they do, who are these people, what data they collect, what they do with that data, and why they start collecting that data without permission for the webuser.

There are cases on certain websites where you are tracked by a dozen of shady third party websites. User should be informed and have the opportunity to block these services.

I wonder what they do if someone “breaks” that joke of a law.

doru said
There are cases on certain websites where you are tracked by a dozen of shady third party websites. User should be informed and have the opportunity to block these services.

I agree with you doru but do you thing these shady third party sites do care about this law? I think only serious business care about and they do serious business (in most cases).

Many of the 99% you mentioned will think when the see such a banner: “W*F, you track my clicks?” and deny to allow cookies. Is that what is it for?

What a joke. Can you imagine the amount of resource and money it is going to take to correctly police this law? Bureaucracy at it’s finest.

Although it was created with good intend, it’s a pretty silly law. They should set some guidelines, for example a user shouldn’t be bothered with a warning if the website uses cookies to set a background property or hide a menu, because it’s not really affecting his privacy in any way.

But when the website collects other information about the user (name, location, address, email…), and maybe even shares it with a third party, then the user should be informed in some way about this.

Stupid law, but I’m trying to see the bright side of things.

Europeans have always had a problem with exchange rates. Ironically, maybe now it’s a good thing Envato isn’t from Europe – wondering how this would have affected sales…

Oh well, darkest bright side I’ve ever seen. Is the world moving towards Skynet?

C’mon, all CC authors working on a tool for this.

Hurry up!!