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People who press on cookie banners anything except “agree” – why do you do that?

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Re: People who press on cookie banners anything except “agree” – why do you do that?

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Post by contravariant »

1. Sure. Though in my case this applies to both options, I'm not storing cookies for webpages I don't deliberately want to be remembered by.

2. If present I'll click 'Deny', but I'm not hunting it down. Blocking the prompt with an adblocker is my preferred option.

3. Cookie Autodelete is the only sensible way to manage cookies IMHO. Store cookies for webpages you trust, delete all others. Annoyingly there's no official way to tell webpages you don't care.

4. Cookie banners are entirely pointless since I'm fully in control of which cookies I am sharing.

Re: People who press on cookie banners anything except “agree” – why do you do that?

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Post by salzig »

dijonman2 wrote: post #5
makepanic wrote: post #4

If I see a cookie banner on a website, I simply reopen it in an incognito window/tab and click whatever it wants. After I'm done reading I just close the website again.

I have a bookmarklet to remove stickies, this gets rid of many cookie banners and signup prompts

Want to share your bookmarklet, maybe?

Re: People who press on cookie banners anything except “agree” – why do you do that?

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Post by Tarq0n »

makepanic wrote: post #4

If I see a cookie banner on a website, I simply reopen it in an incognito window/tab and click whatever it wants. After I'm done reading I just close the website again.

They could still fingerprint your browser. Agreeing to the prompt doesn’t just mean consenting to the placement of cookies but potentially the combination, re-identification and sale of such data.

Re: People who press on cookie banners anything except “agree” – why do you do that?

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Post by shafyy »

loceng wrote: post #9
kmeisthax wrote: post #3

>those in charge of the cookie banners really believe that they protect the interests of the user No, they're asking for consent to track because the EU demanded it. The easiest way to avoid having a banner on your site is to... just not have an analytics package on your site. They're aggressive because they don't want their data spigot turned off - hence the work-to-rule nonsense. You should not infer any benevolenc…

Do you know if it is only third-party analytics being called that requires the prompt, or is setting any cookie for the website's use only requiring permission too?

Essential cookies that are necessary for the website to run do not need a permission from the user. For example, if you want to use cookies to save a selection or a language setting, you don't need to ask for permission.

Re: People who press on cookie banners anything except “agree” – why do you do that?

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Post by binarymax »

As a consumer: I hate cookie banners. Ads are a menace to society and the banners are a manifestation of a toddler fighting against the rules by being a total nuisance. When there's something I need from a site, I will always go into the "manage" route and save the disabled cookies. I also use duckduckgo's privacy browser and burn my session often.

As a provider: I don't use cookies. Here's my privacy policy: https://max.io/privacy.html

Re: People who press on cookie banners anything except “agree” – why do you do that?

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Post by Aardwolf »

I use a plugin called "idontcareaboutcookies" to not see them because I don't want anything requiring interaction just to read stuff anywhere

The internet used to have pop ups in the early 2000s, until popup blockers and then the Mozilla browser came. Then we had over a decade of no pop-ups. Then Europe decided to make the internet a worse place by requiring websites to put something that's essentially a pop-up (the cookie notices) on them by law. I've seen enough pop ups in the early 2000s, so no thank you to them today.

I don't understand why Europe decided to make the web a worse place like this, because it's competing with apps, and apps can violate privacy much more than websites afaik

Re: People who press on cookie banners anything except “agree” – why do you do that?

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Post by kioshix »

loceng wrote: post #9
kmeisthax wrote: post #3

>those in charge of the cookie banners really believe that they protect the interests of the user No, they're asking for consent to track because the EU demanded it. The easiest way to avoid having a banner on your site is to... just not have an analytics package on your site. They're aggressive because they don't want their data spigot turned off - hence the work-to-rule nonsense. You should not infer any benevolenc…

Do you know if it is only third-party analytics being called that requires the prompt, or is setting any cookie for the website's use only requiring permission too?

Regular cookies that are required for normal operation (to remember that you are logged in etc), does not require any permissions. But they try to make it seem that way, and they bug you as much as they can to get you to just agree to all cookies. Dark patterns everywhere.
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