Re: Picking on the big guys again
"My experience in Spain tells me that the majority of sites think it is OK for site visitors to be told they can limit tracking cookies vie their browser"
Not just in Spain - pretty much everywhere, Unfortunately this breaches the law (not the GDPR but European Directive 2002/58/EC) because the distinction that law makes is between tracking devices (not just "cookies" by the way") strictly essential for the provision of the service and all other tracking devices, and no browser can make this distinction.
The only control you have in the browser is between first and third party cookies (ignoring all other trackers completely). In fact our exhaustive research has found no evidence of any business providing control of non-cookie trackers. Indeed even El Reg, despite having a non-essential cookie opt out, nevertheless carries an automatic doubleclick tracker on every news item on the front page, and you can't block that unless you turn off both javascript and images.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
