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proposal: x/pkgsite: remove cookie banner #65080

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eliasnaur opened this issue Jan 12, 2024 · 5 comments
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proposal: x/pkgsite: remove cookie banner #65080

eliasnaur opened this issue Jan 12, 2024 · 5 comments

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@eliasnaur
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eliasnaur commented Jan 12, 2024

What is the URL of the page with the issue?

https://pkg.go.dev/

What is your user agent?

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:121.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/121.0

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What did you do?

Load any pkg.go.dev page from a browser with context cleared, such as from private mode.

What did you see happen?

A cookie banner.

What did you expect to see?

No cookie banner.

With big players such as github.com, sentry.io apparently not needing banners, it seems to me the tracking cookies on pkg.go.dev do not carry their weight (banner and privacy implicatons). I propose tracking be removed and the banner taken down.

@gopherbot gopherbot added this to the Proposal milestone Jan 12, 2024
@adonovan
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What are the cookies used for? Skimming the code, it looks like only the following things:

I agree their value does seem rather marginal.

@eliasnaur
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A similar argument applies to the cokie banner on the go.dev site. I'm not sure whether to open a new issue or both sites can be tracked in this one.

@adonovan
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Probably best to deal with them separately, since the answer depends on technical details of each service, not just political will.

@earthboundkid
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IANAL but my understanding is that if the cookies are purely functional, no banner is necessary. Surely Google does have some lawyers who could review it though.

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#65102 is for go.dev.

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