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> How do I grant universal consent to be tracked so that I can browse the web in peace There's a browser extension that automatically rejects cookies on these popups - https://consentomatic.au.dk/ . I've found it works for most websites.
> There's a browser extension that The problem with browser extensions is... you have to trust them.
Sounds like they are adding cookies to their marketing landing pages for enterprise ads. Not that they are running ads on GitHub. Is there something more to this?
This is Microsoft we’re talking about here. They provide OSes and PowerPoint for the CIA laptops that plan extrajudicial assassinations and torture sites, and groupware for the concentration camps for children down in Texas; their blatant commercialism is perhaps the least gross thing about them. Imagine the most terrible dark patterns from LinkedIn (which they also own), and go self-host Gitea and move your repos.
So if CIA uses GNU/Linux and Libreoffice then should we gross out about Linux and stop using it? Microsoft might have billions of problems but CIA using windows and PowerPoint isn't one of them.
There are tons of open source GitHub alternatives, why does opensource still use GitHub? Why does anyone?
Collective action is hard, and it's even harder when billionaires make conscious, organized efforts to disrupt it.
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This tends to be an unpopular opinion here, but I agree completely. We had almost gotten rid of popups entirely, and now we have something worse, a required annoying banner that often causes the whole window to redraw and move around. Since untracked ads pay 80-90% less than tracked ones, they are borderline required by every site that requires advertising to survive (most websites). In a way I'm sure it's added to v…
The ad/pop-up blockers need to start also blocking the dumb modal windows for this. It might be easier too, there's financial insentive in breaking the blocker
I don't understand why people care about cookies. The stupid cookie banners are an actual nuisance.
The nuisance is an intentional choice by the bad actors in marketing to make you mad about the banner instead of their business practices of tracking you everywhere. Understand that cookie banners are malicious compliance and they make a lot more sense.
If the vague proposal I’m suggesting sounds outlandish, that’s more or less how every major browser implements other requests for intrusive APIs as a matter of protecting users. Even when they do it half-heartedly they do it by developing a standard with their more invested peers which is far less prone to universal abuse.
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Why should I be mad about a tracking cookie? > Understand that cookie banners are malicious compliance and they make a lot more sense. How are they malicious compliance? The laws are poorly-reasoned and poorly-written. I'll continue to be mad about that.
There are no laws in Australia requiring cookie banners, and yet I get hit with them constantly. So the law is clearly not the reason for these annoying banners.
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Payment gateway integrations might be one of the few legitimate non-advertising use cases I can think of for 3rd party cookies. What makes you say they don't need them?
Do you mean that if you reject the cookie then the transaction will fail?
It should also be noted that these popups are likely not legal (or rather, they probably don't constitute informed consent under the the GDPR), but that's a completely different discussion to be had.
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Why should I be mad about a tracking cookie? > Understand that cookie banners are malicious compliance and they make a lot more sense. How are they malicious compliance? The laws are poorly-reasoned and poorly-written. I'll continue to be mad about that.
There are no laws in Australia requiring cookie banners, and yet I get hit with them constantly. So the law is clearly not the reason for these annoying banners.
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> There's a browser extension that The problem with browser extensions is... you have to trust them.
I’m sure anyone installing an extension to make it easier to be tracked doesn’t care what the browser extension is doing either.