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GravyMonster

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Here's three jQuery plugins I've found to display acceptance request messages to the end user:

http://cookiecuttr.com/
http://civicuk.com/cookie-law/index
http://michaelwright.me/cPrompt

However, I wouldn't do any of this until the EU is literally holding a gun to your first born as it's the most retarded POS, ill thought out, legislation to a problem that hasn't existed since 1998. The problem is simply lack of user education. The solution is not warning messages everywhere.

With some luck it will be rescinded before any real impact is felt.
 

Izi

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Spunkey said:
Here's three jQuery plugins I've found to display acceptance request messages to the end user:

http://cookiecuttr.com/
http://civicuk.com/cookie-law/index
http://michaelwright.me/cPrompt

However, I wouldn't do any of this until the EU is literally holding a gun to your first born as it's the most retarded POS, ill thought out, legislation to a problem that hasn't existed since 1998. The problem is simply lack of user education. The solution is not warning messages everywhere.

With some luck it will be rescinded before any real impact is felt.
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This man speaks the truth.
 

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I see the BBC news website has implimented this. Also has a nice section explaining what they are which nobody will read.

Fairly cleaver tactic of making the user hit continue to a message they probably won't read and then never having to ask them again.
 

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feedtheram said:
Fairly clever tactic of making the user hit continue to a message they probably won't read and then never having to ask them again.
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Yes, it's a clever way of wording it. I expect that will become the norm and it will just become an annoyance to most users instead of having a real benefit.
 

GravyMonster

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At best you'll have to login every time you visit, at worst you won't be able to use the site at all as it has functionality which depends on having cookies.

It's also a PITA for marketers and SEO because if the client blocks cookies you won't be able to track visitors to your site via Google Analytics.
 

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mrbell1984 said:
Developers will have to think of a new way to track.
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They will back track on this. The people who created it are idiots and as the BBC have proven brilliantly, people have no idea what a cookie actually does and half of them think that it can give your computer a virus.

I'm sure that companies will love their support lines being full of people complaining that they can't use the website properly because they don't want to use cookies. Then I am sure that support will have the enormous fun of trying to get a cookie from the site after the user has opted out.

I will be completely ignoring this until someone comes and forces me to change all my sites. I do wonder if the government actually has anyone who is not retarded in their IT sector.

All that we ever seem to hear is that they are implementing some half cut, poorly thought out legislation that won't even achieve its aim whilst managing to **** everyone off in the process.
 
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