You do not need to ask for consent to use functional cookies, only for ones that are used for tracking. Most websites could strip out all of the 3rd party spyware and by doing so get rid of the popup entirely.
They’ll never do it because money, obviously.
Comment on What does it mean to ‘accept’ or ‘reject’ all cookies, and which should I choose?
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
tl;dr: “Reject All” will not break the site.
Also, technically there’s still a cookie after that:
The choice is recorded in a consent cookie
The article seems to ride on people’s anxiety about walls of text & choices presented by various cookie popups (not all of which even have a “Reject all” option) and IMHO isn’t quite clear enough that “Reject all” is the best option for 99% of use cases.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
My flow is usually:
[when my cookie auto decline eztension doesn’t work]