Is it necessary to have a cookie policy now?

[born2run]

Hi is it necessary to add a cookie policy on websites and adsense these days? And the user consent popup too? Thanks

[Dimitri]

Yes. (for EU visitors at least)

[KaseyM]

Probably doesn't hurt to have it as a footer link.

Having to notify people is another story. I've yet to hear of a small to medium website getting their wrists slapped.

[Dimitri]

a small to medium website getting their wrists slapped

Indeed, however, Adsense can take this excuse to kick you too. Hopefully, in 2 years, there will be no more cookies, so no more cookie banner... (which doesn't mean we'll be over with consent requirements...)

[IanCP]

I just wish they would can the whole idea.

To me it is a monster $%^& pain going to site after site and seeing this ridiculous cookie approval pop-up.

I don't block ads, but I wish I could block these infernal cookie notices.

[IanCP]

Hopefully, in 2 years, there will be no more cookies

Clear all your cookies and try and use our WebmasterWorld here with cookies banned.

That is just one example of hundreds of sites I need to enable cookies - just to determine where I left off.

I have never understood the absolute paranoia over cookies. Modern browsers take care of those you don't need.

[Dimitri]

To me it is a monster $%^& pain going to site after site and seeing this ridiculous cookie approval pop-up.

And EU regulators claimed they didn't expect this ... really? ... by the way, this is one of the reason of the refining of the e Privacy directive, to address this "issue". But the new e Privacy directive keeps being delayed (it was supposed to be released a the same time as the GDPR ... ).

The easiest and cheapest would have been for the EU to require that web browsers run in a sand box mode by default. And all was solved.

[nomis5]

Because there are so many cookie consent notices nowadays I just click on the YES box. For all I know I could be clicking YES to anything. I simply don't have the time to read them all.

[Dimitri]

Because there are so many cookie consent notices nowadays I just click on the YES box

I am sure that this is what most people are doing.