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?
I have extensions that do it for me
What works for you? Is it Consent-O-Matic?
I use a blocklist in ublock origin, the box for cookie notices isn’t ticked by default but once it was I haven’t seen cookie notices for a while. Can’t get my consent if your request mysteriously never makes it :P
It works for me on Linux and Windows using Firefox.
I do it too.
Every 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.
There 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.”
This annoys me so much. Who tf deemed their interest in my browsing habits “legitimate”? I sure didn’t.
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.
Better then nothing 👌
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.
Firefox has started to add a built-in cookie denier.
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Hoodwinked??
Yep!
The animation was raw and unrefined but the story was ahead of its time
100% agree. I recently made a community for it actually since it’s such a underrated gem!
Oh holy shit, I was reading through the comments seeing if anyone was talking about where this came from and am damn glad I found this haha
“I was prepared!!!”
I don’t drink coffee!
The EU knows and is working on it https://www.techspot.com/news/101396-european-union-set-revise-cookie-law-admits-cookie.html
Can’t wait.
There are a few sites that have a menu which asks ‘can we share your information with our 762 advertising partners?’ Uh… no.
But it’s in their Legitimate Interest!™
Awe, come on!
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
uBlock origin helps mitigate that but it should be a standard to not get bombarded by this pop-up
Oh my God, it’s been so long since I watched that.
This needs to be remade for how Google Chrome is about to handle cookies.
Here’s the template if you want to go for it
I think I’d need more than 2 panels
Everything 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.
I 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.
The 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.
It’s a sabotage against small websites by the big tech.
DuckDuckGo browser blocks them by default.
