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I don't care about cookies

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Re: I don't care about cookies

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Post by schoen »

A subtlety that may be obscured by the name: the software developer is suggesting that people use technological self-help (proactively blocking and deleting cookies) instead of spending a lot of their time and energy repeatedly performing the same cookie consent actions. It's not so much "I don't care at all" as "I want to deal with cookies by a different method than being notified of them over and over again".

Re: I don't care about cookies

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Post by ALittleLight »

schoen wrote: post #2

A subtlety that may be obscured by the name: the software developer is suggesting that people use technological self-help (proactively blocking and deleting cookies) instead of spending a lot of their time and energy repeatedly performing the same cookie consent actions. It's not so much "I don't care at all" as "I want to deal with cookies by a different method than being notified of them over and over again".

I didn't get that from this webpage. It seems like his extension just accepts all cookie requests and doesn't delete them.

Re: I don't care about cookies

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Post by rlpb »

The consent popups you see aren't just about cookies though. They want (and sometimes illegally force) you to consent to processing of your personal information for reasons beyond just providing you with a service (or more commonly just reading an article). Cookies might be one technical means to assist with that, but it's not the only means.

Re: I don't care about cookies

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Post by jhugo »

ALittleLight wrote: post #4
schoen wrote: post #2

A subtlety that may be obscured by the name: the software developer is suggesting that people use technological self-help (proactively blocking and deleting cookies) instead of spending a lot of their time and energy repeatedly performing the same cookie consent actions. It's not so much "I don't care at all" as "I want to deal with cookies by a different method than being notified of them over and over again".

I didn't get that from this webpage. It seems like his extension just accepts all cookie requests and doesn't delete them.

Did you read the first paragraph of the page by any chance?

“If you surf anonymously or if you delete cookies automatically every time you close the browser, websites will ask for that permission again and again, and it will soon become very irritating to click the same I agree buttons every day.”

The extension doesn't claim to delete cookies (and GP doesn't suggest that it does), but it's clearly targeted at people that are using technological means to deal with the problem rather than clicking "pretty please don't track me" and hoping for the best.

Re: I don't care about cookies

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Post by croes »

jhugo wrote: post #8
ALittleLight wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn't get that from this webpage. It seems like his extension just accepts all cookie requests and doesn't delete them.

Did you read the first paragraph of the page by any chance? “If you surf anonymously or if you delete cookies automatically every time you close the browser, websites will ask for that permission again and again, and it will soon become very irritating to click the same I agree buttons every day.” The extension doesn't claim to delete cookies (and GP doesn't suggest that it does), but it's clearly targeted at people…

Why surf anonymously or delete the cookies after all if you click "I agree" every time?
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