{"id":44909,"date":"2021-01-21T21:57:01","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T21:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.glassmountains.co.uk\/?p=44909"},"modified":"2021-02-05T18:39:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T18:39:27","slug":"the-naked-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glassmountains.co.uk\/campfire\/the-naked-website\/","title":{"rendered":"The Naked Website"},"content":{"rendered":"
Cookie banners – we\u2019ve all seen them: you visit a website and some sort pop-up grabs your attention and wants to bug you about cookies & some such.<\/p>\n
I hate them.<\/p>\n
Hate is a strong word but as I run a WordPress web design business, I take a very<\/em> active interest in how websites are designed & work.<\/p>\n I like my job – it\u2019s not curing cancer, or putting a person on the Moon (I wish!) but creating websites is positive & rewarding. The dream of the web is ease of access to information for all; freeing us from the tyranny of geography. So when I see something that gets in the way of that, I\u2019ll speak up.<\/p>\n I\u2019m going to save you the full history lesson here in terms of electronic legislation and simply say this: websites that do any kind of \u2018tracking\u2019 etc (which is often invisible to users) are increasingly becoming frowned upon in legal circles. Put another way, websites can no longer assume<\/em> that anything goes with their website visitors – they need to be more honest and upfront about what data is being collected, and why.<\/p>\n And this may well mean the website needs to ask for consent<\/em> from the website visitor before it does certain things.<\/p>\n To address this visibility issue, legislation increasingly means that websites need to tell visitors what they are doing via \u201ccookie banners\u201d – e.g.<\/p>\nA brief history of cookie banners<\/h3>\n
The Invisible Cookie<\/h3>\n