A great EU-solution to protect us this was. No more evil cookies…
And who would care about the gazillions of scripts that still track you hard. And the fingerprint of your browser that makes you unique-ish. And dare do disallow just one tiny script and the whole site breaks and makes your browser cry.
I miss the internet shortly before and after google came up. Just information.
This is called a “dark pattern“ (a rather shitty design concept) wherein the design is specifically engineered to make you finally give up because it’s so overly complicated, and to just accept the cookies so they can track you and get all your personal information and sell it.
It’s also straight up illegal under gdpr. Rejecting all unnecessary cookies must be as easy as accepting them.
It’s also illegal. The “no fuck you” button should be as visible and accessible as the “accept all”.
Make it as easy for users to withdraw their consent as it was for them to give their consent in the first place.
Obviously, no one cares. There’s no real consequences, cookies are still dropped on your system regardless of consent, and cookies weren’t even the real problem to begin with, user profiling had already moved to include other invasive techniques.
As far as making something complex and useless go, it’d have been way easier to work with the w3c to add attributes to cookies to identify their purpose (essential, preferences, etc.) so the browser could filter them out based on that attributes and the matching of the current website. It would have meant way less work on the website owners, provide ways for end-user to set their preferences universally and be done with it, enforced said preferences, and so on. And people that would lie on the purpose of their cookie would still lie, but could be caught red-handed (assuming anyone actually cared).
Instead we got this mess.
I block their cookies anyways because i doubt they even listen to us when we opt out to begin with.
Have your browser delete all cookies after you close it. It’s easier. You can add exceptions too.
When you accept cookies you authorize them to collect data, just use the extension “I still don’t care about cookies”
Where I assume they collect it anyway because I didn’t disagree
Pretty sure they collect it regardless of you disagreeing or not. Block all cookies by default always unless you are on a site where you need to log in.
But how do you “block cookies”?
Cookies are just files stored on your computer. You just need to forbid the site from saving anything - done (all major browsers support this in some form).
Like, where do i do this?
I can’t find it in settings.
If I recall, the extension tries to disagree, then just hide the popup and finally it will resort to agreeing. Works remarkably well. Sometimes there is a broken scrollbar or site but its an easy fix: Disable, disagree manually, enable.
I browse almost exclusively in private mode. People don’t get it. I’m glad you do.
https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete/releases/tag/v3.8.2
Been using this for years, it’s great.
It’s built in to firefox and derivatives. Probably useful for chrome users tho I think they took this feature away from them.
Little known fact, it’s illegal to hide the option to reject cookies behind multiple clicks.
Just wanted to say that. And it’s visible, when visiting from EU, if you click “Manage preferences”, all except the “legitimate interest” ones are off by default.
WHICH IS BULLSHIT AS THERE IS NO LEGITIMATE INTEREST >_<
it’s illegal
Where? and who enforces it?
In the EU. It must be as easy to select no as it is to select yes. Afaik, each country has its own agency that you can contact about violations.
Europe. The European countries. Some more some less
I know that but it doesn’t really change anything. I’m not going to sue each and every website because of that
You don’t have to sue anyone. You can ask the offenders to correct their website and if they don’t, give a notice to the data protection authority in your country and they will handle it from there.
Came here to say this so I’ll upvote instead. Consent-o-matic is great!
Enable the annoyances/cookies list in uBlock origin and forget about them
But also remember to clear cookies and cache when closing the browser, so all the collecting ia useless
Firefox (or Librewolf) + Ublock Origin, done.
Not difficult
I just browse everything in private window by default. Accepting cookies resets them after opening new window.
At least one tabloid newspaper in Finland (Iltalehti) has put the settings behind a paywall. Accept tracking or pay up.
Which is not allowed, and they could be sued for tiny lil fees. IF someone would sue them.
Nothing more awesome than half-assed solution that actually do nothing and help noone but increase work for everyone involved. This is peak efficiency.
They should really be forced to make a browser API for retrieving cookie consent info — just like there is an API for retrieving the cookies themselves. No need to use 20 different consent window libraries when they all do the same thing. And you could then select Reject All once in your browser’s settings and be done with it.
