I highly recommend the Firefox extension “I still don’t care about cookies” as a great successor to the original
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/istilldontcareaboutcookies/
by the way, I’ve always been subconsciously curious but never asked anybody, what happens when we click “ok yes I accept cookies?” And What happens if we click " not ok, I don’t accept cookies?"
Depends on the implementation. If you decline, it’s either 1) no cookies are written at all and you get promoted again the next time you visit that site or 2) a single cookie is written only remembering that you declined the prompt.
Does it work on Vivaldi?
I think ghostery has an auto decline all that works on most websites.
NEVER click decline all. There are loopholes built in that still grant access to “legitimate interest” cookies, which are recognized differently from “consent cookies.” If you click reject all, it still allows collection of certain personal info through cookies labeled legitimate interest. Which is entirely up to advertisers to categorize.
As annoying as it is, always open up options and manually uncheck cookies.
Seriously? Why does everything just have to be awful all the time now?
$$$
The real MVPs are website not having cookies altogether
I think they will break laws (in countries with basic respect for human right) if they don’t have that option.
Wait, fr? What countries are those?
But does it really decline all, or are you agreeing to their “legitimate interest” of stealing your data?
Data collection is theft, change my mind.
I agree.
Unless I click “Accept All”.
Man the worst I saw was a petrol station, when you walked in up to the tills there was this little sign on a floppy plastic thing that said they had face recognition running and a QR code to scan. The text of the sign mentioned “legitimate interests” but in no way directed users to scan the code and go to the website to object their consent.
It’s such bullshit. These companies collect up the data we produce and sell it for pure profit, without offering anything in return. The data brokerage industry is worth multiple trillions of $ per year, with only $8bn people in the world it stands to reason that the average user’s data is worth $1,000 per year, but they just pick that out of our pockets and use it against us.
Sounds super shady. I’d venture that that would be illegal in Europe.
Thankfully the UK isn’t in any Europe anymore! Just say you’re legitimately interested and you can steal user data without any sort of thing!
Some US news websites still geoblock European visitors rather than fix their site to not track the ever loving fuck out of visitors who say no. So imagine what they’re doing to their domestic visitors.
I liked it when some news sites did plain text only if you didn’t accept cookies. So no cookies, no ads and don’t have to deal with your crappy css? Why would I ever accept that? It was wonderful.
See our legitimate partners (1724)…
I don’t want my data sent to 1724 partners just because i am curious to see what that click bait of a title really meant
I think the moral of the story is don’t fall for clickbait
uBlock origin on Firefox blocks almost all tracking sites. You can enable cookies or disable them, it doesn’t matter because they aren’t sent anywhere. Unless the site has some homebrew tracking solution.
how certain are you that this will truly block them all? Many of these things may have a “Legitimate interest” thing going on, and I do not trust those prompts to object to that by pressing “reject all”
RON SWANSON: I reject all cookies.
Wait, I don’t think I was clear enough. I didn’t ask to reject a lot of cookies. I reject all cookies.
Should be the default option
Vivaldi has setting to block these.
ITT a horde of people who don’t know that http is stateless. Cookies are the easiest and least intrusive way to maintain your session.
And those are allowed under GDPR as necessary cookies
No prompt needed even
Also an easy way to store needed variables between pages. For news sites without a sign up this isn’t necessary but for actual web apps that live across different subdomains it can be a nice to have.
Minimal Viable Product?
