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Comment on CNN blocks Firefox with uBo
SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 11 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 11 months ago
Mango@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yes, PLEASE press A a few times on this monster!
SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Thos but unironically. GDPR
TheEntity@kbin.social 11 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 11 months ago
It’s not only legal to assume, it’s a requirement to default to “no”.
Tracking is opt-in.
xantoxis@lemmy.world 11 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 11 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 11 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.