The Python Software Foundation on European cybersecurity

Posted Apr 27, 2023 8:46 UTC (Thu) by anton (subscriber, #25547)
In reply to: The Python Software Foundation on European cybersecurity by Vipketsh
Parent article: The Python Software Foundation on European cybersecurity

It's against the law to make it harder to only get the necessary cookies than to agree to everything. So many sites now have a button "Only necessary cookies". Even for those that don't, the usual experience is that I click on "configure" and get a page where all (typically 2-4) optional cookies are disabled*, and I just need to click on "confirm".

* At least I think so. Even after several years with "material design", which replaced checkboxes (a staple in GUI design since its introduction in the 1980s) with something that takes more space and is much less intuitive, I am not sure whether a switch is on or off in material design.