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1. GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 17-Dec-2020 15:21:03 EST GeniusMusing
   No cookie for you The GitHub Blog
   https://github.blog/2020-12-17-no-cookie-for-you/
   
   >Good news: we removed all cookie banners from GitHub! 🎉
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   >No one likes cookie banners. But cookie banners are everywhere. So how did we pull this off?
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   >Well, EU law requires you to use cookie banners if your website contains cookies that are not required for it to work. Common examples of such cookies are those used by third-party analytics, tracking, and advertising services. These services collect information about people’s behavior across the web, store it in their databases, and can use it to serve personalized ads.
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   >At GitHub, we want to protect developer privacy, and we find cookie banners quite irritating, so we decided to look for a solution. After a brief search, we found one: just don’t use any non-essential cookies. Pretty simple, really. 🤔
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   >So, we have removed all non-essential cookies from GitHub, and visiting our website does not send any information to third-party analytics services. (And of course GitHub still does not use any cookies to display ads, or track you across other sites.)
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   >We are also committing that going forward, we will only use cookies that are required for us to serve GitHub.com. GitHub has had a long history of prioritizing developer privacy, often going above and beyond any legal requirement, including extending EU privacy protections to all users regardless of location. Developers should not have to sacrifice their privacy to collaborate on GitHub.
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   >That’s all. Have a nice day!
   
   Interesting, also Via EFF.
   1. Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Thursday, 17-Dec-2020 18:16:04 EST Bob Jonkman

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      I was getting all enraged by Github removing from their site yet more software they don't agree with. It should be perfectly acceptable to have software that enhances privacy and gives users control over what's on their computers. If I want to use software that bans cookies, why should Github care? Cookie banners are perfectly good applications.
      
      But then I get to the fifth paragraph. Fifth! Where it becomes clear the article is talking about the dialogue boxes that pop up informing us about cookies. "Banner", the image. Not "banner", the thing that bans.