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Why do we have cookie banners?

A very simple explanation of EU's cookie rules

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Mahdi Assan
Apr 12, 2024
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A few weeks ago, I saw this tweet/post on X (formerly Twitter) from Paul Graham, the founder of Y-Combinator:

The tweet represents a misunderstanding of the EU privacy and data protection rules on the use of web cookies. Cookie banners are how online service providers have decided to comply with these rules, rather than the rules explicitly requiring suc…

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