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Every Fucking Website (2020)

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Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)

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Post by mnewme »

f6v wrote: post #88
Havoc wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Policy making assumed good faith actors - specifically that tracking outside of necessary for website to function to be minimal. Because like…not necessary. It’s only broken to the extent that it collided with a messed up world where websites track even when they don’t need to and then send that to 2000 partners for more profit extraction on top of what the website does commercially. Something is deeply fucked up the…

> Policy making assumed good faith actors Let's not paint the policymakers naïve when they're in fact incompetent.

They are not incompetent in general. Most stuff works pretty well in Europe and better than in most of the world. We just focus on the bad regulations

Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)

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Post by Aurornis »

dijit wrote: post #18
RivieraKid wrote: post #14

The cookie thing, I assume it's EU-only, is an example of the EU policy making process being fundamentally broken in some way. If you create a flawed policy and don't fix it many years after it's very visibly obvious that it's a bad policy, something is really wrong.

it's an example of malicious compliance by some, and herd mentality by others. I had a discussion with my CFO about removing the cookie banner from our website (because we don't set any tracking cookies, and cookies for things like login are exempted) and he said "yeah, but it makes the site seem less legitimate.

> and he said "yeah, but it makes the site seem less legitimate.

He may be right, sadly. I’ve seen the lack of a cookie banner used to suggest that a site was doing something shady or not complying with the law.

Most people don’t have knowledge about the finer details of cookie laws. They’ve been trained to believe that legitimate sites who comply with the laws will implement the cookie banner, and not seeing it feels suspiciously unprofessional.

Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)

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Post by Xirdus »

Havoc wrote: post #48
RivieraKid wrote: post #14

The cookie thing, I assume it's EU-only, is an example of the EU policy making process being fundamentally broken in some way. If you create a flawed policy and don't fix it many years after it's very visibly obvious that it's a bad policy, something is really wrong.

Policy making assumed good faith actors - specifically that tracking outside of necessary for website to function to be minimal. Because like…not necessary. It’s only broken to the extent that it collided with a messed up world where websites track even when they don’t need to and then send that to 2000 partners for more profit extraction on top of what the website does commercially. Something is deeply fucked up the…

The biggest positive outcome of the whole GDPR affair is that people finally believe me when I say that yes, they are selling your data to thousands of 3rd parties, and no, I'm not making these numbers up or exagerrating at all.

Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)

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Post by john_strinlai »

WarmWash wrote: post #22

Loaded way too fast and is way too responsive. Also when I checked NoScript, it's only loading js from lxe.github.io I expect there to be at minimum 8 domains, but often 12-18.

>I expect there to be at minimum 8 domains, but often 12-18.

news sites are the worst for this. bloomberg, nbc, etc. have 20+ domains, and as you click "temporarily allow" on one, it loads in a few more.

foxnews loads 36 domains before temporarily allowing any, which probably approaches 50 once you start allowing.

Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)

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Post by dghlsakjg »

vovavili wrote: post #119
dijit wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it's an example of malicious compliance by some, and herd mentality by others. I had a discussion with my CFO about removing the cookie banner from our website (because we don't set any tracking cookies, and cookies for things like login are exempted) and he said "yeah, but it makes the site seem less legitimate.

>it's an example of malicious compliance So how would you do ePrivacy Directive compliance/risk avoidance in a non-obnoxious way?

Don’t use a bunch of unnecessary tracking cookies?

Completely eliminates the need for a cookie permission bar.

Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)

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Post by peterleiser »

boomlinde wrote: post #49
WarmWash wrote: post #22

Loaded way too fast and is way too responsive. Also when I checked NoScript, it's only loading js from lxe.github.io I expect there to be at minimum 8 domains, but often 12-18.

All buttons and links need to shift around for a good 10 seconds before the page settles.

This. My favorite is when I search for products on a website or app and the results appear in batches, with subsequent results interleaving with the previous results. So when you want to select a particular result and start to move your mouse and click, or move your finger and press, you often end up selecting something unintended because a later result pops into the location.

Re: Every Fucking Website (2020)

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Post by quercusa »

bee_rider wrote: post #114
jchw wrote: post #95

Should load much slower. Also, where is the unrelated autoplaying video that will unmute if you actually click it, that follows your scrolling and only becomes smaller when you dismiss it? Plus, it should probably have text that cuts off letting you know you can have access for just $10/month. Plus, isn't this website undissmissably "better in the app" after a few minutes of attempting to use it on a phone? Where's t…

> Plus, isn't this website undissmissably "better in the app" after a few minutes of attempting to use it on a phone? Where's that at? This is the most annoying thing on the internet. There’s a site I’d like to use, but “try the app” takes up the entire page (and appears to be impossible to dismiss?). Actually, is there a way to permanently request the desktop site for all future visits to a domain on iOS? There is n…

If the site happens to be a discussion site that starts with 'R', clearing cookies will let you through for a while. In Brave, there's a setting to do so when you leave the page.
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