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The European Union has been implementing rulings that seem directly aimed at Google, such as the "Right To Be Forgotten" one where you can do online reputation management by having Google drop bad listings out of the index.
This new one is related to new Cookie Compliance regulations. To help publishers out, Google has created this site: http://www.cookiechoices.org/ ...
This is most definitely going to affect any publisher in the E.U. But what about USA based sites that receive E.U. traffic?
I'm of the opinion that these type of rulings can suck my balls. Apparently it's costing E.U. publishers "billions" in implementation costs while bringing zero benefit to normal web users, considering they can already choose to opt out of being cookied by Adsense. It's very much like VAT taxes and all this other stuff that countries want that I essentially ignore. I'm not implementing a splash screen, an overlay, a pop-up, or anything that says "hey let me cookie you." Talk about a hit in revenue.
The only way I'd consider this is if Google started negatively affecting my site's rankings in E.U. SERPs because I didn't have it. And then I'd definitely only show it to E.U. IP's.
How are you guys interpreting this?
P.S. I should mention that I do have a disclaimer's style page on most of my sites that talk about cookies, collection of data, affiliate network affiliations, control over content on outbound links, etc. I wonder if that suffices. I'm not going into a full scale investigation on the matter just yet. I'll wait for the I.M. world to catch up and shake it out for me.
This new one is related to new Cookie Compliance regulations. To help publishers out, Google has created this site: http://www.cookiechoices.org/ ...
"These tools include code that website publishers can use to inform visitors about their cookies, as well as those that can be used to directly obtain consent, like splash screens, notification bars, or one-time, pop-up alerts that can be used on mobile apps."
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This is most definitely going to affect any publisher in the E.U. But what about USA based sites that receive E.U. traffic?
I'm of the opinion that these type of rulings can suck my balls. Apparently it's costing E.U. publishers "billions" in implementation costs while bringing zero benefit to normal web users, considering they can already choose to opt out of being cookied by Adsense. It's very much like VAT taxes and all this other stuff that countries want that I essentially ignore. I'm not implementing a splash screen, an overlay, a pop-up, or anything that says "hey let me cookie you." Talk about a hit in revenue.
The only way I'd consider this is if Google started negatively affecting my site's rankings in E.U. SERPs because I didn't have it. And then I'd definitely only show it to E.U. IP's.
How are you guys interpreting this?
P.S. I should mention that I do have a disclaimer's style page on most of my sites that talk about cookies, collection of data, affiliate network affiliations, control over content on outbound links, etc. I wonder if that suffices. I'm not going into a full scale investigation on the matter just yet. I'll wait for the I.M. world to catch up and shake it out for me.