One of the most annoying things on the Internet
One of the most annoying things on the Internet
Do other folks virtually always go through the whole process of telling them "no, fuck all the cookies you'll let me disable", or is it just me?
48I have extensions that do it for me
17Every time. All 13 menu options, "legitimate interest", hidden tick boxes, big fat "YES" button and small grey "confirm my choices" button... ironically, if they didn't try so hard, I think I wouldn't care as much.
7There was an update to a word game on my phone, so they made me choose between accepting everything or clicking through 81 vendors (and there was no 'reject all' button). I went with the latter, and every single vendor's 'consent' was automatically off and 'legitimate interest' on. That made me think: "what's included in the legitimate interest bit?". There was a question mark circle next to it, so I clicked:
How does legitimate interest work?
Some vendors are not asking for your consent, but are using your personal data on the basis of their legitimate interest.
Maybe I got it wrong, but to me it felt like "yeah, we will just simply do some things regardless and slap a 'legitimate interest' sticker on it, even though it falls under the same 'we want to sell your data' category."
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I do it too.
5I do it for any website I think I'll visit 2 or more times.
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But keep in mind, before that we had them all silently assume you want all the cookies. It's not perfect, but it's an improvement.
29Better then nothing 👌
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This needs to be handled by browsers. At this point when any website asks me the same thing in a huge page blocking pop up that I've already went through the settings for a hundred times over, I'm just leaving the site.
21I've got third-party cookies disabled entirely. I click whatever makes the dialogue go away faster.
5These banners mostly arent asking for 3rd party cookies, but cookies which arent necessary for the usage of the website like analytics.
And to be fair, even if you decline, you only declide storing of the identifier, they can also do fingerprinting without needing cookies.3What mobile browser do you use?
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Firefox has started to add a built-in cookie denier.
3There are sites that respect the "do not track" setting of the browser and just display a small timed info on your first visit that cookies have been rejected. Examples: geizhals.eu , geizhals.de
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Websites only have to show this annoying pop-up if they're trying to track you with cookies. If you're annoyed, it's the result of the site's shitty data practices
15The EU knows and is working on it https://www.techspot.com/news/101396-european-union-set-revise-cookie-law-admits-cookie.html
13Can't wait.
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There are a few sites that have a menu which asks 'can we share your information with our 762 advertising partners?' Uh.... no.
11But it's in their Legitimate Interest!™
7Awe, come on!
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Not true!
In this image the ask takes up only half the page. You need to have a non-consensual video taking up the top half while the cookie ask takes up the bottom half, and then on top of both the subscription ask takes up the whole page.
It's cook-ception.
9And some Twitter embeds with a little X logo in the top right meant to look like a close button, but it's actually a link to the site. I swear, these internet billionaires have become rich with stupid little "tricks" that shouldn't fool anyone, but apparently fool most people.
3The Musk figures that it would have fooled him, hence it is bound to fool others? :-P
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uBlock origin helps mitigate that but it should be a standard to not get bombarded by this pop-up
8The only reason you find this annoying is because of malicious compliance by the companies behind the sites.
The amount of time and money the sites put down into designing the user interface to trick you into clicking "Accept all" is impressive.
All it would have taken would have been a default setting in your browser like "all cookies", "let me choose" and "only necessary".
But hey, then the sites wouldn't be able to trick you into accepting being tracked, now would they?
6Oh my God, it's been so long since I watched that.
4Everything done to make the Internet 'safer' and/or more clear to idiots has made it worse for anyone competent. The ability to control cookies was always there and worked completely fine since the 90s.
Forced two factor authentication is another one. I literally never had any issues before two-factor because I just used different unique passwords and didn't share them with anyone. I have never been 'hacked' even once for 20+ years online. But now, I have issues when travelling and using a local sim with a different number when email authentication isn't permitted. And all to protect idiots who use 'hunter2' for their password across all systems and then act like some elite hacker cracked their code.
I've since just set up a voip number purely for two factor phone number based authentication, but it's annoying I was forced to do that instead of being given the option through and opt-in system.
4I really hate the forced 2fa on shitty little sites that nobody would care to hack. I also really hate that just about every site and service requires you to give them your phone number now, which of course they immediately start spamming, and you have to send a text to a short code, which might have hidden charges associated with it, to opt out. I don't want anyone having my phone number, but you have to give it if you want service. That VoIP idea you have is great.
4The phone number is the best way to ID user across different sources of data. Facebook created datapoints for those who aren't even on Facebook, but are in some users' phonebooks. In my country you get a SIM-card only with your documents, so alphabet agencies have an even better idea who are you on the web.
It's all just scam that pushed without any conaideration for our convinience.
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Been playing a lot of cookie clicker lately...
3This needs to be remade for how Google Chrome is about to handle cookies.
3Here's the template if you want to go for it
8I think I'd need more than 2 panels
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It's a sabotage against small websites by the big tech.
1..what? It's a mandate because of EU regulations.
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