It looks like I finally have to comply with the "EU cookie law", in my opinion a great waste of time and money.
Imagine the endless meetings, paperwork, testing, programming, etc. to come up with a law that mainly
hurts sites that comply
So some time soon visitors from the EU will see some kind of "cookie consent mechanism". The law is about
the right to refuse the storing of "cookies" (= files that store information related to the site on your PC).
My site, for example, stores in cookies:
- the language you use
- the preferred cell size (small/medium/large) for each puzzle size
- if you use the new number pad, and its position
- whether you have the cells of the Killer Sudoku coloured or not
- an identifier that enables you to stay logged in
So as mandated by law, you can now choose to not have this stored.
edit: it looks like cookies that are required for the "technical functioning of the site" are ok,
this is only for the tracking cookies in the ads.
Of course, if you're not a subscriber you see ads, and they use "tracking cookies" (so Google knows which sites you visit).
If I don't comply, I risk using my Google advertising income.
Google themselves is experimenting with methods to track users without using cookies (which is perfectly possible).
*sigh*