In a few months, cookies will be 30 years old. Born in Netscape, they initially proposed an exceptional improvement to the user experience of the Internet, but like almost everything related to the network of networks, it ended up being fodder for the most harmful possible uses. It is true that the security risk they pose is limited compared to other threats, but they have been used for a long time with the intention of collecting large amounts of user information.

In response to this use (although we can almost classify it as abuse), Regulators have begun to study measures that could be taken to limit the use of cookies through websites and web services. Things move slowly in the palace, yes, so we had to wait a while before the legal frameworks specific to the different regions began to be defined. And in our case, as a member country of the European Union, legislation derived from the General Data Protection Regulation, better known as RGPD or GDPR, for its English acronym, applies.

GDPR marked a before and after, yes, but It also managed to garner some antipathy among many users., because it is precisely this rule that causes websites and services to show us a message with varying frequency in which we have to state what we want in relation to cookies. This has led to a proliferation of solutions that save us the trouble of reconfiguring, in many cases manually and one by one, which domains we want to be able to use cookies and which we don’t.

As I say, it can be extremely tedious, and thankfully it seems that the regulators of the common European space have confirmed the receipt of complaints from users. So as we can read on Techspot, The European Union will introduce changes to the regulation of cookiesand will do so precisely to reduce the inconvenience that the current model presents to users, which it hopes for the cooperation of the technology companies involved.

The problem with these messages is that some sites allow you to easily refuse the use of certain cookies with one or a few clicks, while others, in many cases with a clearly deterrent intent (ie to get the user to stop blocking the use of the same), allow you to accept them with a single clicks, but you need dozens or even more than a hundred clicks to block them. In this sense, the EU believes that responsible companies will improve communication about the cookies used and, above all, simplify processes, in exchange, it will be possible to postpone the obligation to re-consult users over time..