Comment on YSK: You can block almost all cookie popups with Ublock Origin.

• VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In the US, it’s the opposite. The way the law is written, you have to OPT out. So they’re collecting the moment you land.

  I’ve set up a bunch of these cookie banners for US businesses. You can choose if you follow the EU version, or the CCPA version.

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  • jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Fortunately my VPN usually exits from Europe. The internet default to being less of a dick this way

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    • VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wouldn’t really matter for most sites hosted in America. American businesses do not have to comply unless they have EU customers.

      International sites like YouTube absolutely has some system that will switch the cookie tracking depending on geo location.

      But American sites don’t really gaf. Small News site in America, unless they’re paying for a fancy Cookie Consent Management tool, is doing it the US way and it’s opt out, regardless of where you’re coming from.

      For example: if Kansas News site gets a warning from the EU about cookies, they’re not going to care.

      If you hate this, stop using American products and services. (And I say this as a privacy concerned American)

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      • jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        99% of websites have European visitors and they legally must comply with gdpr

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• capybara@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you don’t click any of the options and simply block the pop-up, it commonly breaks the site. Doesn’t matter what’s ethically right, you have to be practical.

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  • jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Where have you experienced this?

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    • VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Seriously. I see comments like this all the time but no examples.

      Just the idea that a developer would care so much to create something like “If user doesn’t consent, ruin their experience”.

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    • capybara@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Countless sites and I’m not keeping track because I visit more than a few sites and not always recurringly. Typically, the page is frozen and I have to disable cookie consent blocker to decline and then be able to use the website. Are you seriously saying you’ve never encountered this?

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      • jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Correct. Usually when I just delete a js modal asking me some bullshit, the website works fine.

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