When I see such a page, I just leave. It's very simple: there is a huge number of websites competing with each other and it's not like someone if holding a gun to my head forcing me to visit a hostile one. I realized the ones I really care about (documentation, personal projects, etc.) never blackmail me with tracking buttons.
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?
#52I 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.
Note that those cookie banners are required, and ever-present, in the EU since 2011 or so already (long before GDPR), so that's over a decade, what do you mean by "might go away when law catches up with them"? I'd be happy if they would go away by the way, it just seems very optimistic!
> The cookie banners are actually illegal
IANAL but the 2011 cookie law required to notify users about cookies, and banners / popups were at least at that time how websites could do that
Re: People who press on cookie banners anything except “agree” – why do you do that?
#53Purely out of spite...
Re: People who press on cookie banners anything except “agree” – why do you do that?
#54>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.
On other hand there could be an extension that sends tracking history and everything else to everyone. If you really want to share that information.
Re: People who press on cookie banners anything except “agree” – why do you do that?
#55I 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…
This is a misunderstanding of the situation. Providers made those banners big, annoying, and full of dark patterns because they want you to agree to those cookies. They didn't have to have a bunch of check boxes right next to an "Accept All" button--this was a conscious choice by those providers. You are being targeted by malicious compliance so you dislike the thing that they want gone . This is a sucker's game, and…
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Re: People who press on cookie banners anything except “agree” – why do you do that?
#56I 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…
You can't blame all of today's popovers on cookie regulation, the HEY DO YOU WANT TO SUBSCRIBE TO MY NEWSLETTER????? crowd had them beat by years. At least the cookie banners usually only cover a small part of the bottom of the window and can be ignored if you don't want to interact with them.
If a website doesn't want to annoy you with a cookie banner, they could always opt to not use any non-essential cookies.
Re: People who press on cookie banners anything except “agree” – why do you do that?
#57These 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.
Many people here seem to forget that cookies aren't the only way to track, and fingerprinting a user is easy without having to use cookies (via UserAgent, IP, canvas data, and a myriad other techniques).
Now, I wonder what does the GDPR and similar legislation say about those, but my uneducated guess is that a user accepting the site's policy regarding user data collection would approve the use of fingerprinting as well (and deleting the cookies would only work partially, privacy-wise).
Re: People who press on cookie banners anything except “agree” – why do you do that?
#58I 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…
You can't blame all of today's popovers on cookie regulation, the HEY DO YOU WANT TO SUBSCRIBE TO MY NEWSLETTER????? crowd had them beat by years. At least the cookie banners usually only cover a small part of the bottom of the window and can be ignored if you don't want to interact with them. If a website doesn't want to annoy you with a cookie banner, they could always opt to not use any non-essential cookies.
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Re: People who press on cookie banners anything except “agree” – why do you do that?
#59Because I don't agree. I don't know what I'm disagreeing to and I don't want to know. None of us do. Most of us use ad blockers anyway.
If your website can work with the highest restrictions, then just make it the default option. It's the engineering thing to do.
I don't want a EULA or some rules just to make a few HTTP requests.
Re: People who press on cookie banners anything except “agree” – why do you do that?
#60I often pull out developer tools and delete anything I find annoying on the website. If that does not work (because, lets say, authors used fancy way of disabling scrolling) then I open separate firefox session running in podman container with different fingerprint. I do this because I don't want to be tracked (though, of course, refusing to play the cookie game will not prevent anybody from fingerprinting my browser..)