alt Hacker News"necessary only" also tends to have a malicious compliance aspect where they don't store a cookie recording your preference and show the banner on every single page until you click accept.
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remus • yesterday at 6:26 PM
Perhaps I am overly optimistic in thinking this is just incompetence.
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PunchyHamster • yesterday at 7:29 PM
which they can be sued for as that's not compliant way to handle it. Just that nobody bothers
I don't see that as malicious. Is my consent record "strictly necessary"? No. Don’t get me wrong. I’m sure they love that, but if sites saved that preference when only necessary was selected, I’m sure a bunch of people would be screaming that they weren’t following the law.