Have your browser delete all cookies after you close it. It’s easier. You can add exceptions too.
It's so annoying
Submitted 2 months ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Album@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
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”
Johanno@feddit.org 2 months ago
Where I assume they collect it anyway because I didn’t disagree
Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/…/v3.8.2
Been using this for years, it’s great.
Damarus@feddit.org 2 months ago
Little known fact, it’s illegal to hide the option to reject cookies behind multiple clicks.
ShadowRam@fedia.io 2 months ago
it's illegal
Where? and who enforces it?
pmk@piefed.ca 2 months ago
In the EU. It must be as easy to select no as it is to select yes.
Johanno@feddit.org 2 months ago
Europe. The European countries. Some more some less
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
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.
DuskyRo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
FarrellPerks@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Came here to say this so I’ll invite instead. Consent-o-matic is great!
winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Enable the annoyances/cookies list in uBlock origin and forget about them
bobo1900@startrek.website 2 months ago
But also remember to clear cookies and cache when closing the browser, so all the collecting ia useless
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Firefox (or Librewolf) + Ublock Origin, done.
Not difficult
gegil@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
I just browse everything in private window by default. Accepting cookies resets them after opening new window.
zxqwas@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There are addons that try to auto decline all. They do a reasonable job at it
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Self destructing cookies extension. Problem solved.
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.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Which is not allowed, and they could be sued for tiny lil fees. IF someone would sue them.
Nothing more awesome than half-assed solution that actually do nothing and help noone but increase work for everyone involved. This is peak efficiency.
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?
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
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
A great EU-solution to protect us this was. No more evil cookies…
And who would care about the gazillions of scripts that still track you hard. And the fingerprint of your browser that makes you unique-ish. And dare do disallow just one tiny script and the whole site breaks and makes your browser cry.
I miss the internet shortly before and after google came up. Just information.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
They should really be forced to make a browser API for retrieving cookie consent info — just like there is an API for retrieving the cookies themselves. No need to use 20 different consent window libraries when they all do the same thing. And you could then select Reject All once in your browser’s settings and be done with it.
wabafee@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Well you eat it of course
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.
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.
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”.
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.