Github has completely removed the annoying cookie banners

Based on the requirements of the EU General Data Protection Regulations, all websites that provide services to the EU must pop up a prompt to ask users whether to accept tracking when they visit.

As a result, a large number of websites now pop up a cookie prompt bar every time they are opened. If the website uses more services, the prompt bar may have more content.

But this kind of prompt bar is already a bit annoying, but even if the annoying service provider is the website, it must continue to pop up under the law.

Unless the website chooses to delete all tracking systems and only uses necessary cookies, there is no need for a cookie banner, but this means that relevant visit data cannot continue to be counted.

Github, a code hosting platform owned by Microsoft, also uses a large number of cookies, including Microsoft’s statistical system, which can be used to track user visits.

However, according to the regulations, the statistical system supports tracking users, so a prompt bar must also pop up. Github said that it has had enough of this annoying cookie prompt.

So Github directly removed all non-essential cookies, and even the tracking access system provided by the parent company Microsoft has now been completely removed from the system.

After the removal, when the user visits the website, only the cookies that the website must use will be generated without tracking code, so there is no need to pop up a special prompt bar.

In fact, another consideration in deleting the tracking system is the privacy of the developers. “At GitHub, we want to protect developer privacy, and we find cookie banners quite irritating, so we decided to look for a solution,” says GitHub CEO Nat Friedman. “After a brief search, we found one: just don’t use any non-essential cookies. Pretty simple, really.”

Although the European Union requires the pop-up of relevant prompts, Github now extends the EU privacy protection to all regions of the world, and Microsoft will no longer track developers.