Not accepting cookies? It's going to get annoying!

[AndyStobbs]

The rate this is going, people might have to meet in the pub?

 

[roofman]

can we not use the word "cookie" as it sounds so cute when in reality its the devil spawned

 

[MattF]

You'd have to set a cookie for non cookie use, I believe that this is acceptable as it is a do not track cookie.

The law is around personally identifiable information, which you wouldn't have in that cookie.

A cookie is a cookie. If a browser isn't accepting them, you can't set one, regardless of content/purpose, and any other method is session based, as I recall, so will only work for a limited time period.

 

[roofman]

The rate this is going, people might have to meet in the pub?

ile be the guy wearing a hat reading the paper in the corner...cough 3 times and ile come over

 

[AndyStobbs]

ile be the guy wearing a hat reading the paper in the corner...cough 3 times and ile come over

Should be easy enough to spot you in the Merebrook

 

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Browsers won't reject cookies, unless explicitly set by the user.

The world is much bigger than the EU

 

[MattF]

Browsers won't reject cookies, unless explicitly set by the user.

Which is what Malcolm is referring to. Anyone who has disabled cookies will get the nag message. Their preference could be stored in the db if they're a registered user, but it'd still need some tweaking to add the additional code, if status is purely cookie based currently.

 

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Which is what Malcolm is referring to. Anyone who has disabled cookies will get the nag message. Their preference could be stored in the db if they're a registered user, but it'd still need some tweaking to add the additional code, if status is purely cookie based currently.

If you explicitly set your browser to not accept cookies then you have to expect annoyances. I would imagine the number that do is so small as to be not worth worrying about, as most online activity would be very difficult. I.e. no online banking, minimal online shopping.

You can use key value stores or a relational database as an alternative. In the majority of situations it's not viable, or desirable as is can significantly increase your backend load.