Today’s Internet is so much worse than the Internet a decade ago… Exponentially higher speeds, yet everything runs way slower and you have to dig for anything you want out of a sea of that
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FishFace@lemmy.world 7 months ago- Do you accept cookies?
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These popups are worse than the actual pop-up ads - at least those were in separate windows or tabs and so could be closed easily with keyboard shortcuts.
laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Strobelt@lemmy.world 7 months ago
All this on news sites and when you refuse everything you get into a paywall
CrowAirbrush@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I often decline their cookie bull, they’ll just keep asking with every new page i load from that website. Preferably with a pop-up that covers 2/3rd of the screen.
FishFace@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I think but haven’t done any proper investigations, that some sites only store your cookie response if you accept a certain kind of cookies. Basically every site now divides cookies up into functional, optimisation and marketing, and I have at least observed:
CrowAirbrush@lemm.ee 7 months ago
You’re probably right about this.