People who press on cookie banners anything except “agree” – why do you do that?

Post by gnicholas » Fri, Apr 08, 2022, 7:35 PM UTC

fastssd wrote: post #134

gnicholas wrote: post #130

I have wondered about this also. I do most of my browsing in incognito windows, where cookies are not remembered once the window is closed. Am I correct in thinking it does not matter if I accept everything, since it will all be nuked in short order? Or is there a chance I am unwittingly allowing cross-session tracking based on IP or other attributes?

In theory, it shouldn't matter whether you choose to accept the cookies, since they'll be flushed anyways. In practice, you most likely are being tracked across multiple sessions based on IP.

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Apr 08, 2022, 7:44 PM UTC

jobs_throwaway wrote: post #139

tejtm wrote: post #128

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normalizes expectation of others inserting ideas in ones head instead of critically assessing concepts with available observations and deriving one's own opinion for starters

why can't consumers critically assess ads the way they critically assess things like this post? what makes ads uniquely menacing?

Post by andrewaylett » Fri, Apr 08, 2022, 7:50 PM UTC

jeroenhd wrote: post #109

Robotbeat wrote: post #82

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I do right-click -> inspect element and then delete the pop-up element in the browser source viewer thing on chrome. Sometimes I have to find where it says “overflow” and set it to “overflow: visible” or something like that. Remarkable how often that works.

This extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hide-fixed-el... has worked wonders for me for naive stalking popups. Some sites disable scrolling until the popup has sufficiently annoyed the user into clicking "accept all", though.

Post by verall » Fri, Apr 08, 2022, 7:53 PM UTC

hosh wrote: post #127

I'm from a generation when gopher was still in wide use. I remember those Flash animations from the 00s. I remember being optimistic in my youth about the internet and how it would change the world. Lots of thought leaders were writing about that. The way we live might have changed, but the world view from which we operate from did not. It should have been a red flag for me that the early commercialization of the Int…

Post by codazoda » Fri, Apr 08, 2022, 7:57 PM UTC

hooby wrote: post #142

I still remember the day, when the browser would show you a pop-up "Allow somesite.com to set a cookie? Yes - No"... Something like that (with a "remember this choice" checkbox) would be so much more economical, than making every single website implement it individually. When the browser does it, then websites also can't ignore it, cheat it, or use dark patterns to avoid it.