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How can this work "for German users"? Why is this not a "for a Firefox user"? I am German - how do I know this is enabled for me? I do not live in Germany.
> Firefox version 120 introduces the cookie banner blocker.
> Enable: By default, it's on in private windows for users in Germany.
Funny, I use the "I still don't care about cookies" extension ( https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies ) right now to automatically accept the cookie banners. They're literally one of the most annoying things that has happened in the web's history
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along with most of functionality, yeah, no
Most content websites work completely fine with JS disabled. There’s a certain sort of startup landing page that’s very commonly broken, but on general content pages it’s definitely uncommon. Though blank pages still aren’t as rare as they should be. Source: I’ve disabled JS by default for I think three years now, and hold that it generally improves the web. My technique is to disable JS via uMatrix, but don’t enable…
I don't want to reload the page with each search or action in gmail. Neither do I want to download telegram or whatsapp if they can be used as a browser tab.
How can this work "for German users"? Why is this not a "for a Firefox user"? I am German - how do I know this is enabled for me? I do not live in Germany.
Firefox periodically dials home and reconfigures itself based on the arbitrary whims of Mozilla. It's really kind of disgusting.
I've had my share of weird issues in Chrome because they enabled an "experiment" of some kind.
How can this work "for German users"? Why is this not a "for a Firefox user"? I am German - how do I know this is enabled for me? I do not live in Germany.
Firefox periodically dials home and reconfigures itself based on the arbitrary whims of Mozilla. It's really kind of disgusting.
I'm fairly certain the telemetry can be disabled, but it is enabled by default and it's among the top 10 most blocked addresses in my Pi-Hole.
Frankly, I'm weighing the benefits to cost ratio of just blacklisting all Mozilla domains if this gets worse.
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along with most of functionality, yeah, no
Unfortunately, modern website functionality is totally inseparable from all the things which make modern websites terrible. Losing functionality is the best solution here, as it trains you not to rely on unnecessarily complicate web apps.
How can this work "for German users"? Why is this not a "for a Firefox user"? I am German - how do I know this is enabled for me? I do not live in Germany.
Germany was probably chosen because Firefox's market share is fairly high there
The EU forcing this garbage is one of the worst things to happen to the web.
The EU didn't actually force cookie banners; they're not the only route to GDPR compliance. The other routes - like only using necessary cookies - were just unacceptable to ad/tracking companies.
The EU forcing this garbage is one of the worst things to happen to the web.
The EU didn't actually force cookie banners; they're not the only route to GDPR compliance. The other routes - like only using necessary cookies - were just unacceptable to ad/tracking companies.
Whoever's bright idea that forcing an annoying banner on users was going to make any company currently employing tracking think even for a microsecond about not tracking needs to have their head examined.
Because you employ tracking you're legally obligated to make someone else's life more annoying is a brilliant piece of legislation.
Given browser headers have existed for a long time, does anyone know why there isn't some protocol of your browser saying "give me all the cookies", "give me only essential cookies" or "give me all cookies except trackibgbones" etc? Instead if tedious and manual banners on every website? I get why companies might not want this (less cookie acceptance) but they didn't want cookies to require consent either and the EU…
The banners aren't even the real problem here, it's the surveillance of users.
We either create strong regulations with teeth and enforcement that make it prohibitively costly for companies to spy on people, or we're left with a technological game of cat and mouse where users have to protect themselves as well as they can by not trusting adversarial companies to play nice and limiting what data they make available in the first place. I'd prefer a mix of both.