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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?
#162As 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:/…
Why not use cookies if they are required for functionality? No notice needed for those, too.
Re: People who press on cookie banners anything except “agree” – why do you do that?
#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
normalizes expectation of others inserting ideas in ones head instead of critically assessing concepts with available observations and deriving one's own opinion for starters
why can't consumers critically assess ads the way they critically assess things like this post? what makes ads uniquely menacing?
Their sheer volume. Drive into a major city in some country where ads are entirely unregulated. There will be billboards everywhere, impossible to take it all in or critically assess it.
Re: People who press on cookie banners anything except “agree” – why do you do that?
#164I set Do Not Track (DNT) header on my browser. That is my answer, and any company who asks my consent for tracking cookies anyway is /already/ violating my consent by ignoring my my clear and standard communication.
Anyone who repeatedly askes for consent when boundaries have clearly been established should never be trusted.
So I ask, why would I ever accept?
To get them to stop asking is never the right answer.
Re: People who press on cookie banners anything except “agree” – why do you do that?
#165I was born in the early seventies and I don't find it much of a hassle to spend a couple of seconds looking for the deliberately-deemphasized "reject all cookies" or "reject all but essential cookies" that's usually next to the bright, shiny "accept all" button.
I also have told Safari to "prevent cross-site tracking", and have sone adblock-type stuff going on to help with that.
And yes, I will shrug and find the "reject all" button upon returning to a site if my decision hasn't been tracked because that would be stored in a cookie on another site or whatever.
There is no advantage for me. The advantage is that it's a way for sites to cram in six hundred tracking services they've added for whatever reason, and still comply with the letter of anti-tracking laws. It is annoying and every now and then I miss the days when most sites weren't full of immensely sophisticated garbageware trying to build a profile on their viewers so as to serve them advertising they're more likely to click on.
Re: People who press on cookie banners anything except “agree” – why do you do that?
#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
> No, they're asking for consent to track because the EU demanded it. Personally, I think that despite seemingly good intentions, this common practice is counterintuitively harming user-privacy and security, especially on mobile where the banners take up a large chunk of the screen. Many normal people get something like "banner-blindness": they are so used to seeing banners requesting confirmation when they visit a w…
On mobile, I often can not even check a box. Rotation sometimes solves the problem. Firefox -noscript always does, if I care that much.
...except for sites that completely stop working when JS is disabled.
Re: People who press on cookie banners anything except “agree” – why do you do that?
#167The more aggressive and dark-UX the banner is, the more likely I am to spend time figuring out how to reject everything or to just close the tab right away. If it doesn't try to trick me into accepting things, I sometimes actually consider doing that. Why don't I just accept them all? No idea. Out of spite? Principles? Because I have too much time? Because my mind is too eager to get distracted with the popup? The fa…
I do right-click -> inspect element and then delete the pop-up element in the browser source viewer thing on chrome. Sometimes I have to find where it says “overflow” and set it to “overflow: visible” or something like that. Remarkable how often that works.
Firefox has an add-on "nuke anything" where you can just right click on anything on a page and remote it. handles these banners pretty well
Re: People who press on cookie banners anything except “agree” – why do you do that?
#168What if one uses an extension which blocks cookie banners? Does that mean not agreeing to any tracking?
Since the extension hides the cookie banner it's effectively the same as ignoring it, not pushing any buttons (nor accept, nor reject), so it means the site is not allowed to track me, because I did not agree to anything, right?
Re: People who press on cookie banners anything except “agree” – why do you do that?
#169I use Hush extension so I never see them anymore
Re: People who press on cookie banners anything except “agree” – why do you do that?
#170I set Do Not Track (DNT) header on my browser. That is my answer, and any company who asks my consent for tracking cookies anyway is /already/ violating my consent by ignoring my my clear and standard communication. Anyone who repeatedly askes for consent when boundaries have clearly been established should never be trusted. So I ask, why would I ever accept? To get them to stop asking is never the right answer.
> I set Do Not Track (DNT) header on my browser.
I never understood the point of that. Asking companies who want to collect your data to "pretty please don't" when there's no oversight or accountability should they decide to ignore your plea makes DNT a waste of bandwidth. It's worthless. Even the companies who would respect your choice have to track you long enough to remember that you've asked them not to track you.
Don't bother asking them to stop tracking you, don't even give them the choice. Block JS, block 3rd party cookies, block ads and trackers, delete cookies on a regular basis.