The real MVPs are websites not needing a cookie banner because they only use required cookies for which you dont need a banner.
Indeed.
NEVER click decline all. There are loopholes built in that still grant access to “legitimate interest” cookies, which are recognized differently from “consent cookies.” If you click reject all, it still allows collection of certain personal info through cookies labeled legitimate interest. Which is entirely up to advertisers to categorize.
As annoying as it is, always open up options and manually uncheck cookies.
Seriously? Why does everything just have to be awful all the time now?
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The real MVPs are website not having cookies altogether
I highly recommend the Firefox extension “I still don’t care about cookies” as a great successor to the original
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/istilldontcareaboutcookies/
by the way, I’ve always been subconsciously curious but never asked anybody, what happens when we click “ok yes I accept cookies?” And What happens if we click " not ok, I don’t accept cookies?"
Depends on the implementation. If you decline, it’s either 1) no cookies are written at all and you get promoted again the next time you visit that site or 2) a single cookie is written only remembering that you declined the prompt.
Does it work on Vivaldi?
I think ghostery has an auto decline all that works on most websites.
My favorite banner is from geizhals.de that only says “We recognize you set “Do not track” and we respect that.”
Edit: autocorrect corrected
Yeah, my university’s intranet (and I believe also their homepage, but I’m not sure) has the same
Too bad the “do not track” message makes you easier to track on every other website
In Firefox 120+ about:config -> cookiebanners.service.mode 2 (from 0)
No addons required.
I think they will break laws (in countries with basic respect for human right) if they don’t have that option.
Wait, fr? What countries are those?
EU Cookie Directive applies to all website owners within the EU aswell as Websites which target EU users.
It gives clear rules for different categories of cookies like how you need to display them and for which you actually need consent to be allowed to use them.
It also sets rules for how easy certain actions have to be and granularity.
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You probably should, according to https://gdpr.eu/cookies/ (not official eu resource) under cookie compliance section: “Make it as easy for users to withdraw their consent as it was for them to give their consent in the first place.”
I found two website with instructions to file a complaint: https://www.enzuzo.com/blog/how-to-file-a-gdpr-complaint and https://noyb.eu/en/exercise-your-rights-article-77-complain-your-dpa . both advising you to contact you DPA.
Any country in the EU as it’s part of GDPR, for example.
Oh cool, thanks!
✅ Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed
How do you delete data that’s already transferred to their servers while you visit the page? You don’t need a cookie to uniquely identify a user.
What’s there to transfer if they aren’t to be found at all?
Do they only transfer when you leave the site?
Every browser can do that. Some can delete cookies when closing a tab or even when leaving a domain for another.
But does it really decline all, or are you agreeing to their “legitimate interest” of stealing your data?
Data collection is theft, change my mind.
I agree.
Unless I click “Accept All”.
Man the worst I saw was a petrol station, when you walked in up to the tills there was this little sign on a floppy plastic thing that said they had face recognition running and a QR code to scan. The text of the sign mentioned “legitimate interests” but in no way directed users to scan the code and go to the website to object their consent.
It’s such bullshit. These companies collect up the data we produce and sell it for pure profit, without offering anything in return. The data brokerage industry is worth multiple trillions of $ per year, with only $8bn people in the world it stands to reason that the average user’s data is worth $1,000 per year, but they just pick that out of our pockets and use it against us.
Sounds super shady. I’d venture that that would be illegal in Europe.
Thankfully the UK isn’t in any Europe anymore! Just say you’re legitimately interested and you can steal user data without any sort of thing!
Some US news websites still geoblock European visitors rather than fix their site to not track the ever loving fuck out of visitors who say no. So imagine what they’re doing to their domestic visitors.
I hope that includes what other sites would call “strictly necessary”. No thanks, if your site won’t work without, then I don’t need to visit.
What’s the issue with “strictly necessary” cookies? Seems like that would keep me from seeing about 70% of the pages I visit, if I were to completely refuse SN cookies. I just turn off all extemporaneous cookies. If they want to remember me for the few weeks between a cookie purge, go right ahead.
uBlock origin on Firefox blocks almost all tracking sites. You can enable cookies or disable them, it doesn’t matter because they aren’t sent anywhere. Unless the site has some homebrew tracking solution.
See our legitimate partners (1724)…
I don’t want my data sent to 1724 partners just because i am curious to see what that click bait of a title really meant
I think the moral of the story is don’t fall for clickbait
how certain are you that this will truly block them all? Many of these things may have a “Legitimate interest” thing going on, and I do not trust those prompts to object to that by pressing “reject all”
RON SWANSON: I reject all cookies.
Wait, I don’t think I was clear enough. I didn’t ask to reject a lot of cookies. I reject all cookies.
legitimate interest is still not a valid legal basis for data collection/tracking in Europe, so it’s not that big of an issue (…but it still allows them to do more they usually can without “legitimate interest”). also most tracking scripts and cookies will be blocked by uBlock anyway
Should be the default option
