Webadmin breaks The [European Union] Cookie Law #531
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The moment ZNC (which can technically be considered a framework) starts abiding by one country's laws, it must start abiding by all of them. You can then run into legal hell, conflicting laws, conflicting rules, etc.
If it is requested to have a specific law be followed, then those who use ZNC can modify it to listen to that law. I don't think that ZNC should change its functionality just to conform to the EU law, when there would be no law in the US or other regions (as an example).
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as i remarked, warn about Cookie Usage in other country, i dont think it i against the rule. EU is not a little country, and i think there are also many other people that use znc in EU, and if they are not skilled, they cant use/share znc due to this exagerated law....
I remark, is not my fault that this law exists :P
I'm also going to remark similar to my earlier comment that it is not ZNC's fault the law exists either - and as ZNC is open-source software and not a EU company, they are not bound to enforce the law within ZNC - adding a popup just to comply with EU law is still changing ZNC to abide by a certain country's law, whereas that law wouldn't apply to, say, USA or other countries.
(The tradeoff between legal regulation enforcement and not infringing on user experience is a fine line, so there's no need for ZNC to actually follow the rules for the EU and provide a popup. You can also achieve that with JavaScript, and can just add that to the themes for your own ZNC instance, if you really wanted to, which then makes ZNC not have to change)
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As said in channel, this is what im doing :) Im adding some line in webskin :) that was only a tip
These cookie popups are the most annoying things in EU websites.
ZNC certainly should not show them, especially as ZNC easily can be run outside of EU.
That said, I'm not going to do anything with this myself.
However, if someone wants to provide a new skin with that text, I can merge it under some conditions, including (but probably not limited to):
Yea, popup are very annoying...considering that cookie used by znc are "technical" in the law's way of view, so it is asked to only warn users, a plain text is the best strategy....i have edited the "index.tmpl" of webskins, added a new line unde the "welcome" message, and stop.
Maybe a better strategy, for other users, would be adding another "eucookielaw.tmpl", and call it from page "znc's admin" wants; I have edited only with a plain text....and i have solved "my issue" :D
l looked into this for my own website
http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm
(the linked PDF also covers "remember me" situations ie authentication past the duration of a session - search for "remember")
...as such, I think the ZNC webmin is exempt from requiring notification anyway, as are most websites not using either analytics or adverts.
Closing based on the previous comment.