I am visiting my sister and brother-in-law in France. While visiting, I am still keeping up with the US markets. Every time I go to a site, the regulations in France are set up to so you have to decide if you allow cookies on a site or not when you log on to a site.
Unlike the US, where you have to decide on hundreds of choices of which cookies to allow or not, the choice begins with a binomial choice to either accept cookies or not. I have been answering NO to all of them and I haven’t had ANY problems with ANY site. This tells me that the cookies are set up to benefit the web site’s owner versus for my benefit.
The way US cookies are portrayed when on US soil makes users think that “the site will not operate correctly without accepting the cookies”. My experience in France lead me to believe most of the cookies don’t benefit ME at ALL. Generally, the wording of the US sites is conveyed in a way that creates doubt with the users. The result is that we accept them, let them track us and market the crap out of us!
We need to get congress to get up on the times and start cracking down on Big Brother. I like the technology we have, but I sure don’t want to go back to “1984”.
Be smart, be well-read, be aware and be successful.
