Relevant: https://twitter.com/EstelMP/status/1369936040702730241
The new E-Privacy Directive (if it doesn't get watered down) might help with the cookie wall problem.
I don't care about cookies
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#82The problem with cookie popups is that it trains people to just click Yes and OK without thinking and reading. At the end we get blind to them and we click and accept things which are much more important, download viruses, click bad links or whatever.
What's needed is better default protection by the law to stop companies collecting and using data.
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#83By the same developer: the No Thanks extension. Blocks most newsletter offers, subscription begging views, etc.
It costs a bit of money, but when asked, an invoice is provided so you can deduct it as a business, or ask your boss to pay.
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you tried going through these new popups? If they are trustworthy then the current ones allow you to disable some cookies and give you an idea of who is doing the tracking. Even though there are far better ways to manage cookies with browser settings and extensions: the options are sometimes quite limited (e.g. Chrome on Android) and many people would simply be unaware of cookies without these popups. Those peop…
They don't work for me. > disable some cookies No, f*k "some cookies". I block ALL cookies except for a few sites I need to log into. That means, ironically, the godawful popups can't set a cookie to remember that I don't want cookies, and they keep popping up every time I go back to that site. The popups are a horrible experience, as are "please sign up for the newsletter" popups. I don't read any newsletters. I use…
> No, f*k "some cookies". I block ALL cookies except for a few sites I need to log into. That means, ironically, the godawful popups can't set a cookie to remember that I don't want cookies, and they keep popping up every time I go back to that site.
I do that in reverse: everybody can set all the cookies they like, but only a few sites are allowed to keep their cookies after I close the tab. I do use I Don't Care About Cookie and this combiantion makes the web much more usable in my opinion.
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#85I’ve used this for years and it’s brilliant. I really don’t care about cookies because I pair this extension with “cookie auto delete”, so whatever these cookies do, they would disappear.
The only downside is that some sites are broken by this extension. Sometimes you end up on a site where the page is disabled and you cannot click on things. Usually turning off the extension and clicking manually the banner fixes the issue.
So here are the three extensions I can’t live without:
- ublock origin
- I don’t care about cookies
- cookie auto delete.
They make the internet usable.
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#86I’ve used this for years and it’s brilliant. I really don’t care about cookies because I pair this extension with “cookie auto delete”, so whatever these cookies do, they would disappear. The only downside is that some sites are broken by this extension. Sometimes you end up on a site where the page is disabled and you cannot click on things. Usually turning off the extension and clicking manually the banner fixes th…
ublock origin has a setting that rejects cookies in the GDPR notices instead of accepting them
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#87The consent popups you see aren't just about cookies though. They want (and sometimes illegally force) you to consent to processing of your personal information for reasons beyond just providing you with a service (or more commonly just reading an article). Cookies might be one technical means to assist with that, but it's not the only means.
Yes, I can't fathom why the hate is on the law, and not the companies now being exposed by the law.. Seriously, if you don't do shady shit your site doesn't need a popup asking for consent.
But even Github has misunderstood it's not about the cookies. They had an article earlier about removing the popup since they managed to do stuff without cookies. The law doesn't care about cookies, it cares about tracking and illegitimate use of personal data. If you send data to third parties or track by other means, consent is still needed.
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#88The consent popups you see aren't just about cookies though. They want (and sometimes illegally force) you to consent to processing of your personal information for reasons beyond just providing you with a service (or more commonly just reading an article). Cookies might be one technical means to assist with that, but it's not the only means.
> The consent popups you see aren't just about cookies though. I don't care about all the other stuff the popups are about either. The popups are pointless, click-through damage and they serve no purpose. The laws that caused them to exist are equally pointless. There is no measurable benefit to any of this privacy theater and no less tracking is occurring since the advent of all of these pointless popups.
Which is why the GDPR specifically forbids pointless clickthrough. The companies doing the theater should be fined.
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#89I’ve used this for years and it’s brilliant. I really don’t care about cookies because I pair this extension with “cookie auto delete”, so whatever these cookies do, they would disappear. The only downside is that some sites are broken by this extension. Sometimes you end up on a site where the page is disabled and you cannot click on things. Usually turning off the extension and clicking manually the banner fixes th…
I wish it was that easy. I'm also using Cookie Auto Delete and uBlock Origin, but remember that many of the tools you are agreeing to use fingerprinting, meaning that even if you delete their cookies they'll keep tracking you around the web. It's safer to not agree to load them IMHO.
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#90I’ve used this for years and it’s brilliant. I really don’t care about cookies because I pair this extension with “cookie auto delete”, so whatever these cookies do, they would disappear. The only downside is that some sites are broken by this extension. Sometimes you end up on a site where the page is disabled and you cannot click on things. Usually turning off the extension and clicking manually the banner fixes th…
ublock origin has a setting that rejects cookies in the GDPR notices instead of accepting them
Where is it?