• Kokesh@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Stuff on their pc? You mean stupid cookie? At the moment you have to click on the cookie banner on every single website. It’s just pain in the ass for any user. I don’t think people actually write the whole text describing what the cookies are for. I personally have a plugin in my FF to automatically dismiss all of this crap.

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      4 days ago

      At the moment you have to click on the cookie banner on every single website. It’s just pain in the ass for any user.

      You don’t have to click those banners because they are neccessary but because the sites intentionally show them to you again and again and again as propaganda against data protection.

      Edit: case in point… when you open lemmy.world to type your comment your browser gets checked by Cloudflare and then a cookie gets placed to mark you as having passed the check. They could theoretically also use this cookie to analyse user behavior by logging how often and when you visit the site, how many topics you open up to read per visit and so on… All without needing to show you a cookie banner as they are simply not using private data that can be used to identify you.