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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
Do you mean it agrees to all the tracking or declines it?
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I always get downvoted for saying this but I think the cookie banners broke taboos about intrusive and annoying pop-ups in web sites. There was a time the tech and design oriented people could fight against it for the users but once it was required or maybe “socially positive” it got much harder to fight against all the others so you find the blogs now that will interrupt you three times to give your email and such.…
Yeah. If there MUST be banners then, hey, why not cover half the #%^*ing screen with a “give us your email” banner.
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The annoying thing is: it is not required by GDPR. You can provide whatever the user wants to do. Recommendations? Sure. If you want them. The required data collection is then just.... Required. It is tied to this purpose though and can't be used e.g. for ads. But it is not OK to collect everything about the user so you can charge more for ads or to sell ("exchange") that information. Which is in 99% of cases the rea…
How are you able to recommend content to a user without having previously asked for consent? Either you have no data and so no information to tune your recommendations or you have data in which case you needed to request for consent
IANAL, but worked through implementations that can work without banner consent.
I don't want to imply that it is easy or anything. It's pretty annoying, especially as the purpose of that data needs to be tightly tracked. But it is totally doable.
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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.
EU is law is so bad that Wikipedia has a cookie banner. It literally bans all non functional cookies unless the users consents like preference cookies, performance monitoring cookies etc. I am sure all their government sites violate their own rules because i see preference cookies getting dropped without my consent and if I block the cookie, site still works.
Even changed browsers, deleted all cookies, and disabled my adblocker. Might it be a regional thing? My IP address is geolocated in the EU.
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Firefox periodically dials home and reconfigures itself based on the arbitrary whims of Mozilla. It's really kind of disgusting.
For those interested, the mothership is: incoming.telemetry.mozilla.org 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.
I usually turn both off right after changing the default search engine and disabling search suggestions, when I setup a new install.
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For those interested, the mothership is: incoming.telemetry.mozilla.org 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.
Telemetry and "studies" are both checkboxes in the privacy section of firefox's preferences. I usually turn both off right after changing the default search engine and disabling search suggestions, when I setup a new install.
https://github.com/K3V1991/Disable-Firefox-Telemetry-and-Dat...
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EU is law is so bad that Wikipedia has a cookie banner. It literally bans all non functional cookies unless the users consents like preference cookies, performance monitoring cookies etc. I am sure all their government sites violate their own rules because i see preference cookies getting dropped without my consent and if I block the cookie, site still works.
What does this wikipedia cookie banner look like? I tried to get it to pop up for the last ten minutes and got nothing. Even changed browsers, deleted all cookies, and disabled my adblocker. Might it be a regional thing? My IP address is geolocated in the EU.
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
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
I've used this extension for a long time, but there are actually websites like CNN that don't work with it now, because according to their lawyers they have to show that banner to everyone from the EU.
Yes, I know that’s probably a recipe for conflicting disaster, but like a lot of these temporary breakages, after about a week the problems with CNN disappeared. And I don’t think I did anything. But, I am US based too.
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.
From the article: > Firefox version 120 introduces the cookie banner blocker. > Enable: By default, it's on in private windows for users in Germany.