Why not program that extension to refuse cookie instead?
I don't care about cookies
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Re: I don't care about cookies
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
These popups are designed to waste your time. What's needed is a global setting to say no to everything. Daniel from Croatia, perhaps could you add a checkbox (opt-in) to the extension with the text: «I declare that I don't want to be tracked and don't want to be bothered with questions about privacy.» and a link to a more detailed manifesto, if not already done?
Speculating here, we could call the checbox "Do Not Track", and make it a browser setting. HN would probably love this. Oh, wait...
I've recently learned of a website that respects this this: https://geizhals.at/
So maybe there is some hope.
Re: I don't care about cookies
#93Earlier 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…
These popups are designed to waste your time. What's needed is a global setting to say no to everything. Daniel from Croatia, perhaps could you add a checkbox (opt-in) to the extension with the text: «I declare that I don't want to be tracked and don't want to be bothered with questions about privacy.» and a link to a more detailed manifesto, if not already done?
Consent-o-matic already does that. You set your preferences, and it appropriately handles the forms for you.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-mat...
Re: I don't care about cookies
#94How do you stay logged in without cookies? Aren’t they vital to logging in anywhere?
You don't need consent for such cookies
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#95I think this would actually massively increase security because you won’t be mindlessly clicking Yes to whatever a website says.
Why would you click "yes"? On legally implented sites it's just as easy to always click "no".
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#96This browser plugin automatically accepted a Notion.so pop up to upgrade to enterprise plan. Beware of this plugin!
Re: I don't care about cookies
#97It would be even more useful if extension had additional rules to always set minimal permissions level for a website; easier when using standard cookie banners, harder for custom coded ones.
Alternative solution: individual cookie allow/block list, so only useful (language settings, login etc.) cookies could be set.
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#98Honestly, I think it is our job as the creators/hackers to come up with a better solution. The problem is very real, and needs to be fixed. But no good solution has ever been created by lawyers. Ever. So here we are, left with a forest of cookie warnings that perfectly break the internet. So here is a proposal: What if a user could declare her/his consent settings _before_ opening the website? There would no longer b…
A much better way: you must ask for consent through something like navigator.cookieconsent, which will trigger the browser specific resolver (that may, or may not, show a prompt for the user depending on her choices). If you set a cookie before this, it will be silently ignored. To work with js free sites, you can feed the same information through in a tag for the HTML. We don't need an exemption for necessary cookie…
> Anybody has any pointers to how to get the ball moving?
Maybe writing an extension as a proof-of-concept, then finding someone who's a member of W3C to propose it as a standard.
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#99The 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 ill…
> Yes, I can't fathom why the hate is on the law, and not the companies now being exposed by the law..
Because the law obviously didn't help stopping companies from doing shady shit and made the user experience of the web worse?
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#100I have been using this for months and it hugely improved my web browsing experience. I would love it to become a browser feature at some point.
(Yes, I really dislike how the "privacy" warriors are dragging everyone into their pointless crusades.)