I recently got an ad about these rail chairs for elderly to get up and down the stairs. I am inu 30s and I am proud that me clicking out all non-essential cookies doesn’t bring me related ads.
Also, that ad somehow passed through ublock. Not sure how 😅
i used to get spam calls about back pain medication, i’m 26, no back pain yet, thankfully. but they kept calling me nonetheless
thankfully i’m european so one day i cited the law to be forgotten, and once they told me “sorry we can’t :(” and i replied “well you better fix that because that’s illegal :)” they hung up immediately and never called me again :D
I hoped it would be mentioned before, but in the EU It shall be as easy to withdraw as to give consent.
Report such sites for non-compliance.
I love the concept of “Legitimate interest”… Like, why the hell anyone even consider storing my data in ILLEGITIMATE interest?
Yeah, and apparently “we’re legitimately interested in your data” is enough to clear that ridiculously low threshold 🤬
I would love to know how much my data is actually worth, like to the cent and why.
I just run uMatrix and AdNauseam on Zen. If a banner shows up after allowing scripts its the good ol’ right click > block element.
I used to run umatrix, I wonder why I stopped. I think people said it was unsupported or something so I use NoScript now
- install ublock origin
- enable “cookie notices” filters
Gasp
I’m so dumb. I didn’t even know I had to enable that… God it should physically hurt to be this stupid
Not really, its kind of one those things; if you don’t know, how could you? Unless you’re the kinda person to sit there and read every option of everything.
What if I want it to hurt? :3
Got librewolf, turned the settings a bit more strict than what comes base so cookies and site data don’t even get saved. Makes me feel good, with that level of ease.
(for websites you don’t use often)
- Open link in private tab
- Accept all
I like the button that says reject non essential. That should be a required button.
It is actually.
Enforcement is crap.
UBlock handles them well if you enable the cookie notice list. If one slips through, I now accept all because cookies are erased as soon as I close my browser
I just zap the banner and make a mental note not to use this website again. If it’s something essential to me, I’d probably add a custom filter - but that hasn’t been an issue so far.
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On many websites, the cookies are created no matter what you choose. It’s a dark pattern to get you to accept all, yes, but In the end it’s still meaningless.
Use a decent browser like librewolf which isolates cookies so only the site that created them can access them and clears all cookies on exit - this protects you from bad effects of cookies so you can just accept all. However, you’re still susceptible to IP address based tracking unless you use tor browser or something similar.
consent-o-matic my goat
I just wish it was a native feature of browsers instead of something that is part of the page. Like, all the other permissions - camera, microphone, Bluetooth, USB, etc access - are native, why can’t be the “hey let me write some crap onto your device that other pages may or may not read” and “hey lemme see what I wrote onto your device when invoked from another website” requests be native too?
Librewolf doesn’t save cookies by default, and you can toggle them on if you need to
Because it would be harder, there are 2 types of cookies: essential ones, necessary for the site to work correctly (remember login, preferences and a bunch of other things) and there are other cookies that are not necessary, and there is no real way to add this distinction since the browser doesn’t really have any way to understand which are which; Also, before anyone reply “but if i don’t want to remember my login?” Some sites still write temporary cookies to work
You can also see what cookies are wrote on your device with Developer tools
Adding support for two types of cookies instead of one (and having a default the browser sends to the site) isn’t black magic fuckery or some unachievable alchemical process. It’s done easily.
Yep, but would companies use them? I doubt, they want profit, they ain’t using that and companies often define standards, so the only hope is to propose to the EU to enforce it or smth
Me on the work laptop
Just install the Consent-o-matic extension and you get the benefit of rejecting without the faff 90% of the time
What browsers support it?
Not sure about chromium ones but it works on all firefox based browsers
I think the only one you can’t use it in is chrome mobile since it doesn’t support extensions
