These are the regulations that require you to give consent to the use of cookies etc when you visit a website.
The reason I think it’s pointless is that I would estimate that almost nobody actually bothers to look at what it is that they are being asked to accept. The vast majority are just impatient to find what they’re looking for and therefore click on “accept all” without the slightest understanding of what it is that they’re accepting.
As this phenomenon is generally known any consent given cannot realistically be considered informed consent, with the result that the acceptance would probably not be legally binding if it in any way prejudiced the person giving consent.
In the circumstances, there seems to be very little point in the requirement to give consent. All it results in is the creation of billions of micro annoyances which slightly reduce the quality of life for every web user.
However, I’m assuming that others feel as I do, and this may not be the case. I’d therefore be interested to know if fellow Fools feel the same way. Perhaps I’m wrong (it has been known!
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As it’s hardly likely that the law will be repealed I would personally like to have a setting whereby my consent could be assumed, thereby bypassing the annoying acceptance page, but would Fools who know more about technology than I do (i.e. virtually all of you!) envisage that this would involve any genuinely - as against hypothetically - serious risks?