However, PM does store a cookie so should have a cookie pop-up...for stupid regulations but rules are rules!

Thankfully that isn't the case. Here's why:

  1. The EU Cookie Law is just that - an EU law. It applies only to sites hosted in the EU (despite the EU and the EC in particular thinking and acting like somehow their laws apply worldwide). Sites such as this which are hosted outside of their jurisdiction are not subject to their laws.
  2. Even if PerlMonks were to move to a hosting facility somewhere which is under the jurisdiction of the EU, the law makes no stipulation of a pop-up. Merely that the user is somehow informed and allowed to choose/indicate their compliance. Many of the less-annoying sites put this nonsense in a page footer so as not to get in the way. Still a complete waste of time, effort and bandwidth but far less intrusive to the browsing experience.
  3. In some jurisdictions where the law is in force (such as the one applying to you and me) purely functional cookies such as the login cookie set here are exempt anyway.

The EU cookie law is not the worst piece of legislation to come out of the EU but it's still pretty bad. I have yet to meet anyone either within the IT industry or outside it who thinks that it has any redeeming benefit. The fact that 95% of the annoying cookie popups just vanish entirely if you disable javascript and reload the page shows how half-arsed most implementations are and nobody cares because nobody really wants it - neither the site providers nor the users.

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In reply to Re^7: login with google account by hippo
in thread login with google account by ysth

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