Comment on European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying

FluffyPotato@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  2. There’s a reject all button on every cookie banner.

  Most importantly, those banners should be streamiled to look the same at the very least. No highlighing “ACCEPT ALL” while graying out “reject all” nonsense. No swapping the buttons left and right, top to bottom trickery. I’d prefer if the browser takes care of it all, though. I’m already using a plugin for that, though it comes with draw backs.

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  • catastrophicblues@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Which plugin do you use?

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  • vext01@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Right, this!

    Tired of all the dark patterns.

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• iain@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No, just ban the collection of user data and selling to 3rd parties. Enormous fines for anyone still doing it. Destroy this entire industry please.

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  • 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The EU is primarily pro-business, but that also means being against anti-competitive and underhanded business practices

    The browser thing sounds like a good solution (although there must be a reason why DNT headers weren’t made legally binding, potentially as they wanted to allow people to pick and choose what cookies they allow based on what they thought was “too far” or something but that’s conjecture), however disallowing all user data will likely lead to companies not being able to advertise to people who are interested in their products, something which the EU will see as a negative and would also cause an uptick in scams and misinformation as you see in low quality advertising space at the moment

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    • iain@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This comment got to me really late, probably to Lemmy’s distributed nature.

      But I still want to add: of course business will make more money if you allow more practices, but selling personal data just has too many negative consequences.

      Also low quality advertising? You mean like billboards and in the newspaper? You mean regular advertising?

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      • 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I mean “[local town] grandma discovers 10 foods you never knew you should avoid” or even downright scams when I say low quality advertising

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• PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  2. No there most definitely is not. Most banners have a big yes button, and you need to scroll to a settings button and then do five more things to not get cookies.

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  • Maestro@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He said that should be added

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  • PinkPanther@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So true. And then you have Schibsted, Norways biggest media conglomerate; the only way to reject cookies is that you have to log in in order to reject it! According to the cookie law (no idea what it’s called), it’s illegal. It’s been reported to the EU and Norwegian government numerous times, but nothing happens. Fuck Schibsted!!

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    • Robaque@feddit.it ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In my experience a lot of italian (news) websites basically say “accept cookies or sign up for our paid subscription”

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      • Damage@slrpnk.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Incognito and accept all

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  • FluffyPotato@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I meant it should be added as a default thing you have in every one of those things.

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• filister@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But even if you reject all, you still allow them to track you through the legitimate interest cookies

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  • FluffyPotato@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That doesn’t sound like a legitimate interest and should be fined or something.

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• XTornado@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The reject all is already a thing. (Well now not sure if is all all or only necessary but doesn’t matter much those are not an issue) Although usually is not called this way or they use some confusing pattern.

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• ad_on_is@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  well, not on every cookie banner

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