Facebook Cookie Warning

[engine]

I just noticed this cookie warning pop up...

To help personalize content, tailor and measure ads, and provide a safer experience, we use cookies. By clicking or navigating the site, you agree to allow our collection of information on and off Facebook through cookies. Learn more, including about available controls: Cookies Policy.

It certainly makes it clear that it's going to track you wherever you roam. There doesn't appear to be a way to use Facebook to stop that tracking beyond Facebook. They must have run this past lawyers, but, really!

[bill]

I wonder how well they work with my cookie blockers.

[engine]

It must be running this because of the stirrings in the EU over cookies and tracking [webmasterworld.com...]
If people accept the cookie warning, "they have been told."

[bill]

I'm not too familiar with all of those EU cookie laws. They're just an annoyance notice for me to block. To me it's like banner blindness or paying attention to e-mail legal disclaimers or the people who tell me to be kind to the environment and don't print e-mails...

[Marshall]

It is the "track off Facebook" part that bothers me. When I am off their site, or anyone else's for that matter, what I do is none of their business.

[engine]

Exactly, Marshall. It's been known for a while they do that, but it's just a step beyond, imho.