Anyone had a cookie ask since 26/05/2012?, New website usage rules. Options

[x2lls]

I'm sure you are all clever, ugly and big enough to locate the 'actuals' on google. I have just deleted ALL of my net browsing history, ie and ff. I have not had a pop up to ask me how I want my personal web usage stored by either the BBC or NWN
There are new cookies in my temporary internet files folder for both sites.

[Nothing Much]

What feedom to not know what you are talking about.
Christopher.

[x2lls]

What feedom to not know what you are talking about.
Christopher.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17745938

[x2lls]

What feedom to not know what you are talking about.
Christopher.

How did you know my name?

[Timbo]

I had one on the Register today.
Personally, it makes no difference to me anyway. The decent websites don't display pop ups and only have small, targeted ads at bottoms of webpages.

[Nothing Much]

It looks like an interesting link. But I am a Christopher & I am going to the land of Counterpane shortly.
ce.

[Simon Kirby]

I'm sure you are all clever, ugly and big enough to locate the 'actuals' on google. I have just deleted ALL of my net browsing history, ie and ff. I have not had a pop up to ask me how I want my personal web usage stored by either the BBC or NWN
There are new cookies in my temporary internet files folder for both sites.

Your browser's record of your browing history has nothing to do with cookies and it's possible those sites don't track which pages of their sites you visit. It may be that once you log in to a site, such as when you log in here to post, you effectively give your implied consent - maintaining a session key inside a cookie is just a lillte cleaner than propogating it across each page request in the URL.

This new cookie legislation is quite possibly the most pointless piece of ill-conceived European twattage yet.

[Timbo]

Cookies also manage your log in information, if you log into both NWN and BBC it will be stored in there which is implied consent. Somewhere in the Ts&Cs it would likely say, by logging in you accept your cookies....blahblah.

[x2lls]

Your browser's record of your browing history has nothing to do with cookies and it's possible those sites don't track which pages of their sites you visit. It may be that once you log in to a site, such as when you log in here to post, you effectively give your implied consent - maintaining a session key inside a cookie is just a lillte cleaner than propogating it across each page request in the URL.

This new cookie legislation is quite possibly the most pointless piece of ill-conceived European twattage yet.

Yes, I am aware of that Simon, you will find the deletion of cookies on the same dialogue as history deletion.

[Berkshirelad]

To answer the OP, yes.

My bank popped it up as part of the log in process for on-line banking.

[theone09]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/...implied-consent

The use of "implied consent" shifts responsibility to the user rather than the website operator, and will come as a relief to thousands of website operators who have been struggling to comply with new EU directives which came into law a year ago.

Those required sites to make it clear when they were saving a cookie on the user's computer which many sites complained was simply impractical. Sites rely on cookies to store data such as online shopping baskets, identification and other user preferences, and requiring users to agree to each instance would subject them to a blizzard of decisions about acceptance or refusal.

[Grumpy]

This is the only local site that I have found that advises about cookies.

http://www.visitnewbury.org.uk/

Shame it is such a crap site

[JeffG]

To answer the OP, yes.

My bank popped it up as part of the log in process for on-line banking.

Ditto.

[Exhausted]

It can be a bit iffy deleting your cookies. I use a program by Webroot called Window Washer. It's a neat prog and will clean and delete all the dross that gets dumped on your hard disc. One of the nice features is that you can, within the program and before they get deleted, see all the Outlook, Firefox and other browsers cookies dumped on your disc and where they came from. If you want to really delete sensitive data the Window Washer is the tool and a deletion and multiple overwrite will make it virtually impossible to recover the data by naughty third parties.