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Silktide
Company blog · silktide.com/blog · on HN as oliverembertonwebbusiness
Silktide is the company blog at silktide.com, writing about web and business. Since 2012, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “The stupid cookie law is dead at last”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Silktide's posts on the UK/EU cookie law, including the claim that the law is dead and the ICO's shift to implied consent, plus a cookie-law infographic and its cookie consent tool.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- The stupid cookie law is dead at last3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-06-23
What Hacker News says?
We wrote a free screen reader simulator for this purpose (Chrome plugin): https://silktide.com/resources/toolbar It’s not a substitute for real-world testing, but it should help you appreciate the basics without having to learn a full screen reader. We’re also working on some accessibility games right now (scores challenges for you to complete in a browser with a simulated disability), which sound a lot like what yo…
Comment linking /resources/toolbar
on “Supreme Court allows blind people to sue retailers if websites aren't accessible”Submitted Why we gave up web design after 10 successful years as a story · 21 points
HN discussionRegarding the cookie warning, I was mostly thinking about this infographic humorously describing the delta between what was originally intended and what was eventually implemented [ https://silktide.com/app/uploads/2013/01/Cookie-Law-infograp... ]. As well as the ICO back-pedaling from explicit consent to implied consent ( https://www.out-law.com/articles/2013/january/ico-to-change-... ). I take it the actual implem…
Comment linking /app/uploads/2013/01/Cookie-Law-infographic-reduced-size.png
on “How the GDPR Will Disrupt Google and Facebook”Submitted Sick of cookie banners and popups? They’re all changing, again as a story · 13 points
HN discussionEven more realistically: is there any reason to assume any of this stuff will ever be enforced, let alone enforced against obscure forums? Here in the UK, these sorts of laws have had, as far as I know, zero enforcement. http://nocookielaw.com/ https://silktide.com/the-stupid-cookie-law-is-dead-at-last/ https://silktide.com/dear-ico-this-is-why-web-developers-hat...
Comment linking /dear-ico-this-is-why-web-developers-hate-you/
on “How solid is Tim’s plan to redecentralize the web?”Submitted The stupid cookie law is dead at last as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYes I look forward to the day that idiotic law is overturned. It sort of almost did die ( https://silktide.com/the-stupid-cookie-law-is-dead-at-last/ ), but the idiots in charge bought it back.
Comment linking /the-stupid-cookie-law-is-dead-at-last/
on “Our best practices are killing mobile web performance”Submitted SerpApi vs. Google and the Future of SEO as a story · 1 points
HN discussion"We, Silktide include [sic], have not only done fuck all to solve the problem" You mean apart from creating the most popular, free, open source solution for complying with the law? http://silktide.com/cookieconsent Or proposing alternative solutions that might actually work: http://blog.silktide.com/2012/09/fixing-a-broken-cookie-law/ Or creating a free information site to help people comply? http://silktide.com/coo…
Comment linking /cookielaw
on “Dear ICO, Sue Us”Submitted How to win your first clients as a story · 1 points
HN discussionRelevant: https://silktide.com/the-stupid-cookie-law-is-dead-at-last/ http://nocookielaw.com/
Comment linking /the-stupid-cookie-law-is-dead-at-last/
on “Tell HN: I wish “we use cookies” messages could be globally turned off”Submitted Cookie Consent – the most popular solution to the Cookie Law as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThere are several, with http://www.civicuk.com/cookie-law/index and http://silktide.com/cookieconsent being the most popular afaik.
Comment linking /cookieconsent
on “Spain begins disciplinary proceedings against site for violating Cookie Law”Their infographic is hilarious: https://silktide.com/images/uploads/images/Cookie-Law-infogr... But I can't see this changing in the medium term without some high-profile fines; someone needs to fine a major media company or similar simply for having Google analytics enabled. Then everyone will shout about their world collapsing, and try to find new forms of allowed dark pattern. Really the only way to get out ahead…
Comment linking /images/uploads/images/Cookie-Law-infographic.png
on “Sick of cookie banners and popups? They’re all changing, again”https://silktide.com/blog/are-websites-getting-less-accessib...
Comment linking /blog/are-websites-getting-less-accessible/
on “Tell HN: Today Is Global Accessibility Awareness Day”
