Internet Cookies and Europe

~ Caution - Governments and Corporations are Messing Things Up Again ~

Play a game, blog about it; what could go wrong? Plenty when governments and corporations go too far messing with inner workings of things the rest of us use.

I haven't posted for a very long time but I do check in on my blog every once in a while. This time there was notice from Google about European laws now requiring me to tell everyone about the cookies I use on my blog.

Here's the notice Google put in (I assume) all the Blogspot control panels:



"European Union laws require you to give European Union visitors information about cookies used on your blog. In many cases, these laws also require you to obtain consent. 

As a courtesy, we have added a notice on your blog to explain Google's use of certain Blogger and Google cookies, including use of Google Analytics and AdSense cookies. 

You are responsible for confirming this notice actually works for your blog, and that it displays. If you employ other cookies, for example by adding third party features, this notice may not work for you. Learn more about this notice and your responsibilities."



Great.

Some foreign politicians, who don't represent me or most of the other folk who use the Internet, make sweeping decisions and now I'm somehow responsible?

At least Google put in a notice for Europeans to see but now I have to worry if I make any changes to my blog's setup, will those changes break this notice?

If I understand how the Internet works (and I really don't have much of a clue), the web is made up of many connections so who knows what cookies are being used along the way between the connections.

Ok, everyone in Europe (and where ever else this affects), I have no idea what cookies Google or anyone else has put into this blog and I have no control over it. Blogspot and Blogger are owned by Google. Google is the information super collector of Internet data, not me. Read at your own risk.

And here I thought all I had to worry about writing a blog was spelling, grammar, and getting screenshots to fit on the page.

Oy...


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