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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 JTbane »

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…

>No, they're asking for consent to track because the EU demanded it.

Given that you can completely block cookies and other tracking in the browser, why on earth did they bother? I despise bureaucrats writing laws when they don't understand technology.

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

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Post by shrimp_emoji »

Aardwolf wrote: post #19

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…

The cookie banners are actually illegal, and, eventually, they might go away when the law catches up with them. You've fallen for advertiser FUD.

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

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Post by eropple »

enlyth wrote: post #24
Aardwolf wrote: post #19

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…

Completely agree, every website I visit now has an annoying cookie overlay, which requires interaction from the user. Just let me read the damn article! I don't care if you track a single visit to this website which I will never come back to. I can protect my privacy myself if I want to, the EU is not helping at all because there are just dark patterns everywhere to make not accepting cookies difficult or inconvenien…

"This law should fail because people who want this law to fail are complying maliciously" is one of the more out-there readings of reality I have seen in some time.

Perhaps, rather than shrugging one's shoulders and saying "well, to hell with you, I've got mine," there are other things we as a functioning society can do. Like standardize how these cookie prompts must be displayed (small, inobtrusive) and standardize a set of accepted behaviors when the user ignores or closes it (reject all non-required).

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

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Post by l33tman »

enlyth wrote: post #24
Aardwolf wrote: post #19

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…

Completely agree, every website I visit now has an annoying cookie overlay, which requires interaction from the user. Just let me read the damn article! I don't care if you track a single visit to this website which I will never come back to. I can protect my privacy myself if I want to, the EU is not helping at all because there are just dark patterns everywhere to make not accepting cookies difficult or inconvenien…

They don't just track "a single visit", they bind your surfing of this particular site to your global shadow-profile at FB or Google and then sell this data about you to companies purchasing ads (or worse). This kind of data collection of the general public is what the EU's GDPR is designed to protect, and which is why you need to ask consent from your users to track their desires like that and sell their data.

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

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Post by omnicognate »

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…

> My personal habit is to always click whatever option denies the most amount of tracking, mostly because I can.

Likewise, except:

* If for any reason I can't easily deny all the unnecessary stuff (eg. there isn't a way or they have something like the Daily Mail where to disable all the "legitimate interest" you have to click literally hundreds of individual boxes) I don't click anything and leave the site immediately.

* I don't do it because I can. I do it because by clicking OK I would be explicitly consenting to being tracked and I don't want to be tracked. The content is pretty much never worth it. ("It" being falsely telling people I'm fine with being tracked. I'm perfectly aware it will happen anyway.)

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

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Post by Liquix »

No need to click anything nor be tracked across the web! I Don't Care About Cookies [0] combined with Cookie AutoDelete [1] will hide all cookie consent popups, deny permission/not click if possible, and auto-accept if required to use the site. IDCAC alone will hide all popups, but in cases where you must click accept to browse it will do so invisibly & the cookies will linger. CAD solves this problem by purging everything automatically (except your whitelist) when the tab is closed.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-a...

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode...

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

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Post by ohyoutravel »

These banners have made me more aggressive about using DDG browser on phone. I do click “accept” because it’s the fastest path to read whatever article or view whatever picture I came to the site for, then use the DDG flamethrower to destroy everything. It’s a bit of a win-win because I get to read the site without having to figure out the site-specific cookie settings but the site also doesn’t get any of my data.
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