Cookie Opt in

gord · 30 May 2012 at 09:52

Yes, all sites are subject to it. That said its target isn't small blogs.

GravyMonster · 30 May 2012 at 11:32

That's true, but the wording of the directive makes no mention of the type of site this is for, so it must be assumed all sites are subject to the £500,000 fine if found guilty.

The retardedness is beginning to dawn now...

Cuchulain · 30 May 2012 at 11:35

900+ customer sites to update

englishpremier · 30 May 2012 at 13:01

Cuchulain said:
900+ customer sites to update

At least you know that you've got work for the next few months.

lookitsjonno · 30 May 2012 at 13:04

englishpremier said:
This is what i use.

Interesting I don't see any compliance from the likes of google.co.uk and other big sites with EU TLDs

could you imagine the length of googles cookie policy

Cuchulain · 30 May 2012 at 13:07

englishpremier said:
At least you know that you've got work for the next few months.

Yeah, that doesn't include the time to filter out customers who do actually use cookies, half of them employ SEO companies who end up putting various bits of analytics code in and we never get to hear about it.

Izi · 30 May 2012 at 14:37

I hate this change in law more than IE6. What a waste of time.

Also the chance of someone actually being fined in court, pretty low? I think. Google hasn't been bothered, msn.com hasn't been bothered. Heck lloyds tsb, natwest haven't bothered.

Cuchulain · 30 May 2012 at 16:12

Izi said:
I hate this change in law more than IE6. What a waste of time.

Also the chance of someone actually being fined in court, pretty low? I think. Google hasn't been bothered, msn.com hasn't been bothered. Heck lloyds tsb, natwest haven't bothered.

MSN.com is probably hosted outside of the EU (same for google), Natwest has an obvious cookie policy alert on their site and Lloyds also link to their new cookie policy so they're using implied consent.

lookitsjonno · 30 May 2012 at 16:20

implied consent is the way to go it seems, just show the notice once, make a cookie on the users PC so they never see it again. this is the way barclays have gone also.

GravyMonster · 30 May 2012 at 16:41

Cuchulain said:
MSN.com is probably hosted outside of the EU (same for google)

Hadn't thought of that - does it fall under EU jurisdiction if the site is hosted in the EU, or the site is being used from within the EU?

If the former, I might move all my sites to GoDaddy

Izi · 30 May 2012 at 19:48

Spunkey said:
Hadn't thought of that - does it fall under EU jurisdiction if the site is hosted in the EU, or the site is being used from within the EU?

If the former, I might move all my sites to GoDaddy

Actually no he is right. it doesn't matter where its hosted, it matters where the company is registered.

englishpremier · 30 May 2012 at 22:09

lookitsjonno said:
implied consent is the way to go it seems, just show the notice once, make a cookie on the users PC so they never see it again. this is the way barclays have gone also.

Implied consent isn't good enough.

Izi · 30 May 2012 at 22:12

englishpremier said:
Implied consent isn't good enough.

was good enough for BBC

BaJ · 31 May 2012 at 08:55

englishpremier said:
Implied consent isn't good enough.

Last minute change, it is now:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/may/26/cookies-law-changed-implied-consent

http://blog.silktide.com/2012/05/dear-ico-this-is-why-web-developers-hate-you/

Definitely the way to go.

iamtheoneneo · 21 Jun 2012 at 14:43

had to change ours today, not really a big deal actually implementing it as you can use cookie control http://www.civicuk.com/cookie-law/index

superleeds27 · 21 Jun 2013 at 20:14

Whose responsibility is it do this?

The owner of the site?
The web hosting Company?
The company who provided me with my website?

Vulcan · 21 Jun 2013 at 21:42

iamtheoneneo said:
had to change ours today, not really a big deal actually implementing it as you can use cookie control http://www.civicuk.com/cookie-law/index

That seems to enable cookies by default?

superleeds27 said:
Whose responsibility is it do this?

The owner of the site?
The web hosting Company?
The company who provided me with my website?

Website owner.