EU may restrict use of cookies

I don't believe this. The European Parliament is taking legislative steps to restrict the use of cookies. The initiative will force websites to explicitly ask users if they want to accept cookies.

The eurocrats are reaching new heights of incompetence with this initiative. Not only are cookies useful when browsing various personal accounts. Restricted use of cookies will also make user registration more frequent and complicated on the Web. For instance, users would need to go through an additional step to access this leftist party homepage. In turn, users will suffer from annoying interruptions and harder to use websites. Any free society would leave such an issue to companies and consumers. The EU don't.

Bottom-line: There are priorities in life. Political economy is not one of them.

Screenshot: Cookies required on a socialist party website

Kristoffer Bohmann

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