It's so annoying

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• watson@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is called a “dark pattern“ (a rather shitty design concept) wherein the design is specifically engineered to make you finally give up because it’s so overly complicated, and to just accept the cookies so they can track you and get all your personal information and sell it.

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  • hikaru755@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s also straight up illegal under gdpr. Rejecting all unnecessary cookies must be as easy as accepting them.

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  • cley_faye@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s also illegal. The “no fuck you” button should be as visible and accessible as the “accept all”.

    Make it as easy for users to withdraw their consent as it was for them to give their consent in the first place.

    Obviously, no one cares. There’s no real consequences, cookies are still dropped on your system regardless of consent, and cookies weren’t even the real problem to begin with, user profiling had already moved to include other invasive techniques.

    As far as making something complex and useless go, it’d have been way easier to work with the w3c to add attributes to cookies to identify their purpose (essential, preferences, etc.) so the browser could filter them out based on that attributes and the matching of the current website. It would have meant way less work on the website owners, provide ways for end-user to set their preferences universally and be done with it, enforced said preferences, and so on. And people that would lie on the purpose of their cookie would still lie, but could be caught red-handed (assuming anyone actually cared).

    Instead we got this mess.

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• Album@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Have your browser delete all cookies after you close it. It’s easier. You can add exceptions too.

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  • Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    When uou accept cookies you authorize them to collect data, just use the extension “I still don’t care about cookies”

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    • Johanno@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Where I assume they collect it anyway because I didn’t disagree

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• Damarus@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Little known fact, it’s illegal to hide the option to reject cookies behind multiple clicks.

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  • ShadowRam@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    it's illegal

    Where? and who enforces it?

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    • pmk@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In the EU. It must be as easy to select no as it is to select yes.

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    • Johanno@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Europe. The European countries. Some more some less

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  • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I know that but it doesn’t really change anything. I’m not going to sue each and every website because of that

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    • Damarus@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You don’t have to sue anyone. You can ask the offenders to correct their website and if they don’t, give a notice to the data protection authority in your country and they will handle it from there.

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• winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Enable the annoyances/cookies list in uBlock origin and forget about them

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  • bobo1900@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But also remember to clear cookies and cache when closing the browser, so all the collecting ia useless

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• gegil@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I just browse everything in private window by default. Accepting cookies resets them after opening new window.

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• zxqwas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There are addons that try to auto decline all. They do a reasonable job at it

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• the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Firefox (or Librewolf) + Ublock Origin, done.

  Not difficult

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• TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Self destructing cookies extension. Problem solved.

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• DuskyRo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Consent-O-Matic

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  • SaraTonin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve found it’s been struggling a bit over the last year. I’ve definitely had to do it manually a lot more than i did before.

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• konna@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  At least one tabloid newspaper in Finland (Iltalehti) has put the settings behind a paywall. Accept tracking or pay up.

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• Kaput@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I set my browser to delete all cookies on exit. I suppose they only get one session worth of information. I havent researched how m much better it is. Opinions?

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• handsoffmydata@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The Policy: “Are you sure you don’t not want for us to not not share all your data with third party advertisers?” The Options: Not Disagree | Don’t Agree

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• wabafee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Well you eat it of course

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