I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
They want the tracking, and they want it from every third-party app they associate with in another part of their business. For example, if they have a Facebook page, they want to integrate it with Facebook tracking.
Saying, "why don't we just... not?" doesn't get very far in my experience.
SessionStorage is kind of important for anything approaching a web app. And "first-party" cookies are fine, too. Even though you don't need to for GDPR compliance, I think the way to go there is to inform users that when they click "view as a grid" on your product page, that you can remember that setting on this particular browser.
I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
Explaining those things to clients is part of being a professional web developer. I agree this is hard and sometimes impossible, but I will not just resign.
I linked to the GitHub statement, because I also think first party cookies are sometimes okay. GitHub is explaining this well.
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Getting clients on board is next to impossible.
They want the tracking, and they want it from every third-party app they associate with in another part of their business. For example, if they have a Facebook page, they want to integrate it with Facebook tracking.
Saying, "why don't we just... not?" doesn't get very far in my experience.
SessionStorage is kind of important for anything approaching a web app. And "first-party" cookies are fine, too. Even though you don't need to for GDPR compliance, I think the way to go there is to inform users that when they click "view as a grid" on your product page, that you can remember that setting on this particular browser.
Other than that lot, I totally agree.
Also, I got 52 seconds on that game, which is a totally cool way of demoing things to people!
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Explaining those things to clients is part of being a professional web developer. I agree this is hard and sometimes impossible, but I will not just resign.
I linked to the GitHub statement, because I also think first party cookies are sometimes okay. GitHub is explaining this well.