I found a loophole to prevent those pesky cookie notices đ
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Have you noticed how this page doesnât have a cookie pop-up? Nothing to accept before you can read the content?
Itâs because I figured it out. Iâve spent months studying the General Data Protection Regulation (âGDPRâ) and the Cookie Law and found a way to avoid having to ask you for any kind of permissions.
But Mattias, I forgot what the cookie banners look like! đ±
Theyâve become rare, havenât they? I mean I literally had to open at least two random websites to find a cookie notice!
Just in case you forgot, I went to the trouble of taking actual screenshots and annotating them. With arrows. At least youâll be able to find those cookie notices now (unlike Waldo, whoâs always hiding)!
Take this one for example. When youâre on mobile, it takes up half your screen.
Whatâs better than half your screen? Full screen cookie notices of course! And because of lawyer-y stuff, we need a full disclaimer and just add a scrollbar in the notice too. I mean, itâs already fucked, isnât it?
But what if we position it at the very bottom. Like something subtle? Something hidden from view?
Nope.
OK, if we canât hide it, letâs just stick with the in-your-face cookie notice. Full screen, weâll even redirect you away from the main site to show it to you. đ
So those are the cookie banners. You remember them now, donât you?
The rule I can circumvent đ„ł
See, there are a lot of small prints in the GDPR text. Itâs 11 chapters with 99 articles, after all. And the Cookie Law has even more text. Nobody has time to read it all!
But the real trick is in this one, hidden, line. Iâll paraphrase, because the actual line is boring,lawyer-corporate-enterprise, speak.
In no fewer words, GDPR & the Cookie Law states:
Stop. Fucking. Tracking. Everyone. On. The. Internet.
Now this isnât entirely true, I should admit. If I were to use a few more words, the summary of GDPR would be:
Stop. Collecting. Everyoneâs. Personal. Browsing. Data. On. Every. Website.
As a small aside: yes, I am available for hire as a copywriter.
Now that we briefly summarized the policy, whatâs the loophole?
The loophole đ
Turns out to be quite simple really.
Want to know why I donât have a cookie notice on this site? Itâs because I donât track you.
I donât track your browser habits, I donât collect your screen resolutions or fingerprint you in any way. In fact, I couldnât care less who you are or why youâre reading this.
Thereâs no Google Analytics tracking, no Google Ads or Double Click advertising. Thereâs no hidden Facebook or Twitter pixel.
And guess what? The site still works. We donât need any of that!
I run my weekly e-mail newsletter in the exact same way. No tracking pixels, no open-tracking. Pure e-mail.
Want to know if your blogposts are well-received? Ask for feedback on Twitter. Or on Facebook. You know what the difference is with that approach? Itâs opt-in by design.
The loophole is pretty simple: donât collect personal data and give it to 3rd parties. đ
Why does no one know of this trick? đ„
Youâd think itâs pretty easy to implement this trick, wouldnât you? I took me just a few minutes to remove all tracking code (which I did months ago).
But by looking at the major sites you can tell, itâs not a known loophole. Itâs something very few people seem to be aware of. So I just had to share it.
Now please, implement this new approach and give me back 1/3rd of my screen real estate when I visit your website. đ
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