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Consent-O-Matic – automatically fills ubiquitous pop-ups with your preferences

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Post by fuzzy_biscuit »

iwontberude wrote: post #69
sgc wrote: post #66

With how aggressive websites are in shoving popups down our throats for every little random thing, we need an in-browser AI bot to get rid of them appropriately. It's leaking too. I got a popup on my keyboard on my phone yesterday, and literally thought "this is too much, I wish I was dead" (I'm doing fine, just an intrusive thought :). Time to dial it back in folks. It is unbearable.

To those of us with ADHD this firehose of notifications and distractions feels like a deliberate attack on our agency. It does make me feel like I want to die, not because I’m depressed or suicidal generally but because I can’t imagine aging gracefully with this escalating source of entropy.

This is precisely why I'm sidling up to the idea of an old flip phone. The deluge of "communication" that is force-injected into my eyes every day is an immense waste of my mental energy. I hate this age of attention assault.

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Post by gleenn »

alok-g wrote: post #70

Asking genuinely as I never experimented myself -- Does the Internet experience in general cripple if one rejects the cookies on all websites? Or there is very little loss of functionality? I often allow 'essential cookies'. Would go to 'reject all' if that works fine.

I reject-all as often as possible and they just make me log in more.

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Post by paulryanrogers »

troupo wrote: post #58
paulryanrogers wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

DNT could be mandated as a prompt instead of ever included by default. Or does the GDPR require explicit consent prompt and selection per domain?

GDPR requires explicit informed consent for data not strictly required for the working of a A user giving consent to A does not translate into consent for . And yes, the default for such consent questions must be "no"

Perhaps I was unclear. IMO someone picking "sure fine everyone track me" when setting up browser (DNT preference) first time should count as explicit consent for every site. And similarly choosing DNT for all should legally count as telling site not to track and not to ever prompt.

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Post by 1oooqooq »

alok-g wrote: post #70

Asking genuinely as I never experimented myself -- Does the Internet experience in general cripple if one rejects the cookies on all websites? Or there is very little loss of functionality? I often allow 'essential cookies'. Would go to 'reject all' if that works fine.

Given that the average person visits a site once. No.

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Post by xnorswap »

ivann wrote: post #62

I like this proposal to add a "purpose" field to the cookie header. This could allow consent settings at the browser level, preventing all these pop-ups. https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/httpbisa/Mp-DjtBk-sfdQ...

And they will mark all the advertising cookies as "Legitimate interest", as they've already started to do that with the confirmation prompts.

The "legitimate interest" of selling you shit you don't want and selling your interests to third parties.

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Post by Double_a_92 »

sgc wrote: post #66

With how aggressive websites are in shoving popups down our throats for every little random thing, we need an in-browser AI bot to get rid of them appropriately. It's leaking too. I got a popup on my keyboard on my phone yesterday, and literally thought "this is too much, I wish I was dead" (I'm doing fine, just an intrusive thought :). Time to dial it back in folks. It is unbearable.

The actual problem is not the popups, it's that websites have so much spyware crap on them that you need all those warnings.

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Post by Double_a_92 »

alok-g wrote: post #70

Asking genuinely as I never experimented myself -- Does the Internet experience in general cripple if one rejects the cookies on all websites? Or there is very little loss of functionality? I often allow 'essential cookies'. Would go to 'reject all' if that works fine.

Not really. You might need to login everytime, or on shops you will lose your cart.

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Post by ivann »

franga2000 wrote: post #68
ivann wrote: post #62

I like this proposal to add a "purpose" field to the cookie header. This could allow consent settings at the browser level, preventing all these pop-ups. https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/httpbisa/Mp-DjtBk-sfdQ...

The problem isn't lack of a solution, we've had DNT for years. It's that the people who want to track you generally don't want to make it easy for you to opt out.

Yes, this will need legislative backing. We had the GDPR since the DNT.

I also just discovered the GPC which seems more interesting: https://globalprivacycontrol.org

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Post by Double_a_92 »

Refusing23 wrote: post #57
aucisson_masque wrote: post #45

'I still don't care about cookies' works on almsot every website I browse. This extension on the other hand used to work maybe on a third, don't know if it improved but I would suggest the first if you're fed up with the cookie popup.

> 'I still don't care about cookies' if i recall this just closes the cookie popup but if you want some functionality you may need to accept some basic cookie like "remember me" for logging in, etc? this is what the extension is great for not sure if you can use both

The problem is that it needs to be manually adapted to each side that doesn't have a well known cookie banner... So if you mostly visit "exotic" pages it doesn't work.
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