The real MVPs are websites not needing a cookie banner because they only use required cookies for which you dont need a banner.
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They still have to inform you, right? Like with some banner at the edge of the page telling that they use cookies, just no need for a popup asking you to accept or decline.
No it’s only for tracking cookies. If you just have cookies for login, for example, then there’s no need to ask permission
And what tells you is how fucked the internet is since almost every single webpage asks to use tracking cookies.
There is also the problem of sites without tracking cookies having banners just to be on the safe side.
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Just FYI - it's mandatory to have a button like that next to the 'Accept all'.
Every site that doesn't do it should be reported.
To where?
The serious answer is to whatever your country's internet regulation agency is (assuming your in the EU, else you're out of luck). So for example, in France that would be the CNIL, in Germany it's the BfDI, etc.
Just FYI Germany likes to make things more difficult, so with federation every sub-area is separated in many aspects and has own agencies for different things..
BfDI is only responsible for health and internet-provider institutions (and a few more).
Otherwise you can send it to the one where the company is located at, or always where you are located at. (they will forward it, but that can take a few months, so better to submit where it has to go).
Straight to internet headquarters of course.
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Or just sites that don't need a consent popup because they don't sell your shit.
"well, we're not selling it, we're just using 247 advertising agencies to measure the general performance of our site. Nothing targeted, we'd never do that." - totally legit companies that absolutely value user rights
/s, if that wasn't obvious enough.
The real MVPs are website not having cookies altogether
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?
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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.
I think ghostery has an auto decline all that works on most websites.
My favorite banner is from geizhals.de that only says "We recognize you set "Do not track" and we respect that."
Edit: autocorrect corrected
Yeah, my university's intranet (and I believe also their homepage, but I'm not sure) has the same
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In Firefox 120+ about:config -> cookiebanners.service.mode 2 (from 0)
No addons required.
Does this accept them?
This seems to be the config:
cookiebanners.service.mode = 1 (reject all) or 2 (reject all or fall back to accept all).
So on 2 it would reject all, and if not possible, accept all.
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Istilldontcareaboutcookies + cookieautodelete - you da real mvp
✅ Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed
How do you delete data that’s already transferred to their servers while you visit the page? You don’t need a cookie to uniquely identify a user.
Every browser can do that. Some can delete cookies when closing a tab or even when leaving a domain for another.
I think they will break laws (in countries with basic respect for human right) if they don't have that option.
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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.
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.
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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
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.
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Should be the default option
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.
I hope that includes what other sites would call "strictly necessary". No thanks, if your site won't work without, then I don't need to visit.
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Ghostery plugin gang rise up!
Vivaldi has setting to block these.
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