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Discussion on: I created a website, but when do I have to notify users that I want your cookies?

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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt • • Edited

I am worried mostly about Google Analytics and Disqus, actually. Or, are they respective companies' problems?

Actually, I have exactly another one use case of cookies -- securing user authentication and session without relying on localStorage.

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Brandin Chiu •

I'm not a lawyer so couldn't tell you for sure.

The best thing is to just cover your bases and add a disclaimer anyway, theres no actual functionality you need to build, and providing a simple button wouldn't be too difficult.

There are also probably dozens of copy/paste solutions out there for this very common problem.

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17lwinn •

if they are tracking your users, you must tell them that before hand and if possible offer an option to disable it