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Are there any tools to check websites to see that they do what they say they will do? Or is it a manual thing?
I've come across a few websites that have cookie controls that don't do what they say they do when I manually examined them. E.g. still using analytics Are there any tools to check websites to see that they do what they say they will do? Or is it a manual thing?
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and the annoying scroll down popups Wait, is it when you pull the page by moving your finger to the bottom of the screen and the “header” pops up?
Some sites ask you for an email, or login when you scroll down, and you have to hide it to keep reading. I think Medium pioneered this?
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Website admins chose the path of malicious compliance.
Not necessarily. Many are told by their bosses to either put minimal effort into becoming compliant, or worse, told to use a horrid cookie notice service that creates so much user frustration that some of us abandon the site rather than deal with it. I think with few exceptions, most web admins just want to get the cookie notice sh*t out of the way and get on with work that matters.
The cookie policy is a stupid value-signalling stunt with only negative real-life effects. The correct way of handling the problem would have been through request headers and browser settings, or simply, use the existing option of either allowing or disallowing cookies, and put this option on a per-site basis and a bit more into the users face..
Interesting article. This policy has felt like a complete failure, but I didn't know the depths of how badly it has failed. I would really like to see these die. Regulators should just work with browser vendors to make an API that I can set at the browser level, and websites just read that to know my preferences and leave me alone.
Your preferences should be on the website level though, not global. And you should be asked about it on first visiting the website. Let me explain why with an example: say you're the type of people who doesn't care about "privacy" online ("I've got nothing to hide"), or you do; and you want to "support " certain ad-supported websites you're a fan of; but not that new clickbait toilet paper your aunt sends you. I can'…
Goatcounter or Plausible will do fine. Some decent frontend log parsing will also be a viable strategy.
Stop feeding Google your customers data for free.
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Some sites ask you for an email, or login when you scroll down, and you have to hide it to keep reading. I think Medium pioneered this?
Oh, sad. I hate these idiotic header backscroll popups so hard, hoped it can disable that too.