With those new changes, would a Cookie component be necessary anymore? Can we finally scrap them on our websites? I’ll admit I was never a fan of them, they are annoying AF and the ones where you have to go and disable every single “Legitimate Interest” one by one are diabolical.
Anybody else here more versed in EU regulations that can shed some light on it?
Well at this stage its only an proposal of the commision, here in Belgium they will still use the cookie-banner / popup because we need to give the visitor the choice for accepting cookies or not bla bla. Still, Europe isnt fast at taking decissions soo…
@differentdan In general: Any cookie banner you might add will never be compliant with the different interpretations in the EU countries. For example, in Germany you would need to add the cause of the cookie and some information on the first stage of the cookie banner. Even before you click to receive more information.
So that would be a black hole for RW and its limited resources.
→ I advice to tell us elements users to use one the existing cookie banner and cookie banner services to save you unneeded development effort and for us customers to be on the legally safe side.
Yesterday I created a cookie banner for use in Elements with ChatGPT. It includes a statement with a button to make it disappear, and it appears at the bottom of the page. The cookie banner refreshes after 7 days to satisfy Safari’s refresh rate. All you need is to insert the code into the HTML snippet and another small piece of code before the section. So far, it seems to be working in a draft/test site I am starting to put together.
This is actually an interesting point. If the EU does amend the Cookie part of the GDPR to shift the burden from website owners to web browser companies , does that mean it’s valid for all EU member states? Or, would individual member states be able to override/set their own rules regarding Cookie compliance (e.g. Germany has one set of rules, Belgium has another?)
That seems like it would be messy and a nightmare to navigate for website owners.
Yeah, I imagine it will take awhile to become law, if it does become law.
I agree. I usually suggest people just use CookieYes to handle their Cookie compliance. I get wanting to roll your own cookie compliance solution, but as a website builder it seems time could be better spent not having to focus on building that out for every possible scenario and then keeping it updated every time the law changes in some country or bloc. I feel like most people would rather not have to add that to their plate of things to think about when building a website.
