Verification Codes.
One-Time my ass, more like, repeated times. I’m so tired of verification codes up the ass these days. Just today, I had to reset my PayPal password. So that meant there was a code sent to an e-mail address after the reset process was set, to begin with. Then I had to go through the obstacle of verifying the information of the account. And then even after the password was reset, I’m sent ANOTHER freaking code right after!
And it’s even more frustrating to deal with, with my bank. I’ve gotten random verification checks for making internal transfers within my account. Things I’ve done without any issue. But just one day, I got THREE verification checks to do what I needed to do!
This verification shit has gotten out of hand! I want it to just die, just like captcha. Whatever purpose they originally were intended to do, is lost in translation, because now they’re just obstacles that wastes our time every minute we have to bother with them.
These stupid Cookie- popups. Damn, every site uses cookies. Just let me set my preference once, across the entire internet, and shut the fuck up.
If you use uBlock Origin, you can go into the settings under filter list and activate all lists in Cookie Notice, Socials and Annoyances. Makes the web much better.
Thank you! I had all but one checked
Does hiding the notices with uBlock count as allowing or denying the cookies?
It is default deny, otherwise instead of being half the screen, those banners would be so small that the deny button would be pixel sized, just as the close ad button on Android games.
Agreed, but let’s go one step deeper: Fuck the notion that privacy is an individual consumer right instead of a collective societal problem. I don’t “consent” to any of that crap, but I shouldn’t be able to at all. Legislate away the behaviors you don’t want, instead of pushing that onto people who don’t care. Corruption is wrong even if all parties “consent”. Extortion, election tampering, mass exploitation, same thing. The whole problem is the companies do what they want, don’t give a damn if data gets stolen, governments are in on it. That’s not an individual issue
Consent-o-matic on Firefox does the vast majority of them for you.
There are a few browser plugins that suppress them. None are going to catch and eliminate every one of them, but they can reduce the frequency. I use I still don’t care about cookies.
I combine that with cookie auto - delete. Cookies are accepted or whatever, and then immediately deleted after closing the tab.