ScuzzBlog: Diaries November 2024 Entry 08th November 2024: Post 1: It's goodbye to EAB - Cookie Crunched. It's goodbye to EAB - Cookie Crunched. I have a policy of never entering cookie gated sites. These are sites that restrict access behind a cookie gate. Previously EAB or the English Amiga Board had a polite notice advising of their cookie policy, but you could still view the site. However, they have now locked the site behind a cookie splash banner that requires you to agree to their usage. Be aware that the laws that required sites to advise of the use of cookies never made it a requirement that you accept cookies. The law simply makes it necessary that sites that use cookies advise of the their policy and be given the opportunity to decline the usage. It never said that access would be restricted or blocked if you did not agree. Many commercial sites that survive on their advertising revenue took the opportunity to block users unless they agreed to the collecting of data via the cookie. The point that I struggle with is the comfort that is given that data is only shared with trusted sites and supporters. And yet once in the public domain no matter how trusted their partner is they have no control of just what that partner does with the data. It follows 'I NEVER' accept a cookie unless I am a fully paid up subscriber with a financial link to the site and means of communicating with them. I am pleased that sites like Lemon Amiga still let you visit their site without having to agree to cookies. Sadly that is the end of EAB and Hall of Light and no doubt The Magazine Rack. The gated cookie splash screen I will never cross and so yet another valuable resource is now out of bounds. It's goodbye to EAB - Cookie Crunched.

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