mjau-mjau wrote:
X3 simply uses the plugin below:
https://github.com/osano/cookieconsent
https://www.osano.com/cookieconsent
It definitely has options on how the warning is presented, although these options are not made available directly from the X3 plugin options (for example ACCEPT / DENY buttons, which clearly are explicit). In this case, you would simply have to add the plugin manually (Settings > Custom, add the script and JS config). I could probably assist.
I will have a look into this.
mjau-mjau wrote:
Personally, although I don't want to write a long post, I think it's meaningless and counter-productive.
- Did you ever (EVER) hear or read about any private person being contacted by the law for collecting anonymous data (like Google Analytics)?
- The cookie laws are in place for one thing and one thing only: To stop companies (with emphasis on big actors like Facebook) from farming private data about users, enabling them to be tracked across websites (or when re-visiting), often indirectly used for commercial gain (ads).
- It's the worst thing you can do to your website. There are not many things more annoying than having to click some [OK] button at bottom of screen immediately after visitor opens a website they want to visit (often quickly).
- It's good what the EU laws are doing, but it's difficult for them to create the law properly. It's clear emphasis is to prevent tracking of PERSONAL data (without concent), that can be used to IDENTIFY and TRACK a user (for example IP address). If you just track for example the browser-name of all your visitors (and nothing else), then that's not personal, because it doesn't identify users, and can't be used to track them. Even Google Analytics has partially addressed this [ref].
I'm not here to debate though :zipper_mouth: If you feel you need extraordinary compliance, you may need a custom plugin configuration.
I'm definitely with you, I HATE these cookie banner warnings, I really do and I wished that we don't need them because they're ugly, clunky und quite hard to set up.
In Germany we have something called an "Abmahnung". This can happen to everyone and happened often even to small companies and private individuals who didn't have an impress on their website. An impress. Failing to satisfy the DSGVO regulations can result in an Abmahnung as well. And this can really happen to everyone.
I don't think that the German regulatory authority will fine me because I failed to comply with the cookie regulations but a competitor or a so called Abmahnverband could try to serve me (and everyone else) an Abmahnung which could easily cost several hundred Euros.
https://www.e-recht24.de/artikel/datens ... ungen.html
This is really nothing highly hypothetic or individual.