dickover — a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a website or app, deliberately obscuring its own content to frustrate the user with an unwanted, unnecessary, mandatory interaction; e.g. asking the user to accept “cookies”, subscribe to a newsletter, install the website’s mobile app, agree to terms of service, or anything else that the user couldn’t give two shits about.
Exactly, we should be able to set the cookie settings on the phone or computer and have the device apply them to every website, as we see fit, rather than deal with a pop up and subsequent screens every web page to reject cookies.
The DNT header was supposed to do this, but no legislation ever required anyone to respect it and it got dropped. Global Privacy Control seems to be the new try, hopefully it goes better.
Exactly, we should be able to set the cookie settings on the phone or computer and have the device apply them to every website, as we see fit, rather than deal with a pop up and subsequent screens every web page to reject cookies.
The DNT header was supposed to do this, but no legislation ever required anyone to respect it and it got dropped. Global Privacy Control seems to be the new try, hopefully it goes better.