My blogger admin page provided me with the following message on new cookie regulations for the European Union and its member states:
European Union laws require you to give European Union visitors information about cookies used on your blog. In many cases, these laws also require you to obtain consent.
As a courtesy, we have added a notice on your blog to explain Google's use of certain Blogger and Google cookies, including use of Google Analytics and AdSense cookies.
You are responsible for confirming that this notice actually works for your blog and that it is displayed. If you employ other cookies, for example by adding third-party features, this notice may not work for you.
As a courtesy, we have added a notice on your blog to explain Google's use of certain Blogger and Google cookies, including use of Google Analytics and AdSense cookies.
You are responsible for confirming that this notice actually works for your blog and that it is displayed. If you employ other cookies, for example by adding third-party features, this notice may not work for you.
So as the administrator of this blog, I am responsible for making sure this notice is available to anyone from an EU nation. I have made more custom modifications to this blog than I can count, and there is a chance they could get in the way of this notice. If you live in the EU and do not see this notice; please contact me directly, or comment here, and I will correct it.
This blog doesn't use AdSense at all, so the only cookies are blogger stats and my third-party stats. I can assure you that both are perfectly harmless. The third-party stats I speak of is StatCounter, which are one of the most trusted and popular website/blog stat services on the net.
Update
Based on some testing I have done... the notice only shows itself once. I tried it with at least 5 EU nation codes, and once I clicked either "Learn More" or "Got It" it didn't show itself again. Even after a browser relaunch.
I wish we didn't have to deal with these notices, especially on mobile where some take more than half the screen...
ReplyDeleteYour complaints belong with the EU and Google, not here. I have nothing at all to do with it, and since this blog is hosted on Google servers, I have to follow their guidelines.
DeleteOne possible way to avoid ever seeing it is to use a non-EU nation code like .ca or .com. Try that and let me know if it works from an EU nation.