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Comment on CNN blocks Firefox with uBo
SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 5 months ago
CNN: We can’t ask if you want to allow cookies because you’re blocking everything
Me: Which means I don’t want you to……….?
CNN: No idea, we have to ask you.
Me: I’m so strict you can’t even ask meaning………?
CNN: You….
Me: Yes?
CNN: Uh………… don’t want……
Me: Yesssss………
CNN: To miss out on us asking you.
EonNShadow@pawb.social 5 months ago
Mango@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yes, PLEASE press A a few times on this monster!
SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Thos but unironically. GDPR
TheEntity@kbin.social 5 months ago
GDPR doesn't require them to ask if they would just not violate our privacy. In other words, it's perfectly legal to assume "no" if they have no means of asking.
sanpo@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
It’s not only legal to assume, it’s a requirement to default to “no”.
Tracking is opt-in.
xantoxis@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Indeed. If a site simply doesn’t send you cookies, there’s no question of GDPR compliance. Blocking the cookies amounts to the same thing.
I’m currently wondering if CNN may actually be in violation by doing this.
FishFace@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The requirement to not track users with cookies does not extend to cookies that make the site work in the first place, such as those which track your login session, or your refusal of other cookies.
Delta_V@lemmy.world 5 months ago
so don’t track login sessions, etc.
no cookies, no problem with not having asked for cookie consent.
if the site breaks, it breaks, and leaving it broken is a choice users can make.