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GDPR? It’s all Google’s fault. 😂
Google spent years farming your data. Now you have to accept 5 million cookies before you can use a website.
▶Play the video: GDPR? It’s all Google’s fault. 😂For years and years Google farmed people’s information through Google Analytics, Google Ads and all the other products we install on our websites. Then GDPR came in, and Europe decided this was no bueno.
So now you have to accept 5 million cookies before you can even use a website. It isn’t a better experience for anybody. But here we are.
I could stop there, to be honest, because the short version is you have to do it. It’s the law, and if you don’t, you can be fined.
In the UK, if you have a website, you have to give visitors an explicit choice. When somebody arrives, you can’t assume they’re happy for cookies to be installed on their computer automatically. They have to be asked.
Which means a cookie banner on your website, and which means, frankly, a pain in the backside. Blame Google.
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for years and years and years Google have been farming users information through the use of Google analytics through the use of Google ads and all these other nonsense products that we install on our websites then when gdpr law came in in Europe the Europeans decided that this was no bueno what's happened is you now need to accept 5 million cookies before you even launch a website it's not a better experience on anybody's level but here we are and that's where we're at still waiting for your track those C I could stop the video there to be honest because basically you have to do it it's the law if you don't do it you get fined but let's carry on so what does the law Define now well in the UK If you have a website you have to explicitly give users and not explicit in that way you have to explicitly give users a choice when somebody comes to your website you can't assume that they accept responsibility for those cookies being automatically installed on the computer which means well it means pain in the ass to be honest