That's an arbitrary distinction.
Cookie pop-ups in itself are not great, but the fact that I can chose to allow or not cookies to be stored is a power to the user. If you on one hand praise Apple for privacy because they keep it for themselves for potential later use, you can't ignore the power we get from cookie pop-ups. I also believe that they will need to have a single button with refuse all in the near future.
I suspect Apple won't actually lose significant numbers of customers, because the percentage of customers who care about this is minuscule, and Apple's European users will just get worse features thanks to their government, which doesn't care about end users and can't think through the consequence of their regulations.
The correct way to implement this "power" is to require all major browsers (just like how EU designates companies as "gatekeepers") to support a native cookie popup dialog so that users can change it in settings "Yes, accept all the damned cookies from now on automatically". We have native dialog boxes for location, camera, and mic permissions, but somehow cookie isn't part of that.
If that is the case, the only one not caring for the end user is Apple. The EU is not responsible for Apple not willing to comply with the law, and arbitrarily limiting features in Europe.
Sure the manufacturer can do anything legal. You the consumer don’t have to buy the product.
At least they did something and can and will improve on this. You can use Firefox with Ublock and block most of the pop-ups. I think there is also an extention explicitly doing what you are saying.
Vote with your $$$ is what manufacturers hear. Blackberry will attest to that.
Back to the simplistic, argument killing, ignoration of the diverse criteria people have when buying a phone, classic.
Only if you can't comprehend what the benefits are, which is privacy. Apparently you only care about privacy when it is AppleSpeak...
There are all sorts of easy tmeplates/implementations for this.
Better to lose some time on clicking, than cookies to a website.
Gold star for trying? They clearly dropped the ball. As evidenced by the fact that you suggest using software to block the notices because most people find them annoying.
But the implementation is the whole point! Cookie notices are a perfect analogy for how the DMA gets things wrong. The commission does not have the skills to get the implementation right. The high level goals of the DMA are great!
Why couldn't other people make good phones that they can make "good accessories" for? 🤣
Which is a concern, and needs development, not dissolution.
Well, we experience something completely different then.
It will cost you money then.
I never said they should not improve on it. But I am happy it is there, because I actually care for my privacy.
You may believe so.
It's been almost 15 years without improvement. The solution has been obvious the whole time. Scrap the directive and put the responsibility on the browser makers instead of individual websites.
What are you on about?
If you care about your privacy, then adjust your cookie preferences in your browser settings and block the notices. Because if you rely on the cookie notices, you are getting tracked anyway.
Correct!
Which backfired. Because people who have never heard of cookies will mindlessly click accept all. Then when the next big Chrome update asks the user for the last time "do you want us to accept all cookies for you?" people will click yes via muscle memory.
doesn't change the fact that many hours were lost in implementing the popup.
uh nope.
I believe there has been several cases over the time, and currently I think in Germany the wall shall include a refuse all button.
Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony have been doing this for over a decade with their consoles and no one seemed to care until Apple did it.
So after 15 years we might get more "refuse all" buttons on some websites that may or may not do what it says? Wow! /s
