Bad EU law ruins cookies
A law that demands consent to internet cookies has been approved and will be in force across the EU within 18 months. It is so breathtakingly stupid that the normally law-abiding business may be tempted to bend the rules to breaking point.
If the cookie is "strictly necessary" (ie used in a shopping basket script) then there's an exception, but for everything else, the user will have to give consent for the site to use cookies. This means google analytics, auto login, webtrends, user tracking and saved site preferences. A website will have to get your consent before it can do any of these things. And I can say with confidence that every website I visit will use cookies in some way.
It's cocking ridiculous!
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It'd be a good way to wipe out porn tracking cookies. Fixing someone's peecee and finding hundreds of those buggers is really icky!
BTW: http://www.thebookofbiff.com/
You introduced me to biff a while ago, and I've been subscribed to it since. I guess you're advertising it because he asked everyone to in the latest strip? :D
I used to donate money to webcomic artists on their birthdays. Now that I'm poor I just do whatever the buggers tell me to. :)
I remember that! I haven't read dragon tales in ages though. My comic subscriptions are biff, cyanide & happiness, amazing superpowers, boat crime, basic instructions, xkcd, lfgcomic, penny arcade, sky kayak (which hasn't been updated in ages) and dilbert.
Do you have any more recommendations?
I got so far behind on the awesome Dragon Tales that I gave up on catching up. He's so prolific!
Those you're missing:
http://www.redmeat.com/redmeat/current/index.html
http://www.daniellecorsetto.com/gws.html
http://www.mrwiggleslovesyou.com/
http://buttersafe.com/
http://www.sinfest.net/ (Calvin & Hobbes grown up - read from first to get it.
http://www.abominable.cc/ (beautifully drawn weekly comic about an abominable snowthing, the mysterious forces of nature and the little forest critters. Discovered it last week)
Oh crap I totally forgot mrwiggles and redmeat exist! I'm a bad person :(
Are the rest safe for work?
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