IT in the EU:
Due to some EU laws, there has to be a “cookie consent” dialog on every website that uses cookies. I would estimate that more than 50% (probably too low) of these popups are cosmetic only and it doesn’t actually matter if you click accept or reject.
Wow that suck. I always spend time turning off every legitimate consent button. So I get cookies anyway?
You could set your browser to clear all cookies when you close it. That does mean you have to keep logging into sites every time you open the browser again, but with a password manager that’s not really a problem.
There’s plugins that will do it for you (with the max privacy settings so you don’t have to worry about getting tricked by phrasing).
I even have one on my mobile browser.
Use this: https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies And combine it with this: https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete
I’ve set it to delete cookies on domain change.
Most of these consent pop ups are designed to be insanely annoying to the point where you just click accept all on a long list of cookies for individual things and they are not even grouped
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/
Handles most of this for you.
It’s sad that for some of the more obnoxious offenders where you need to individually opt out for each ad partner they carry it still may take the addon 30+ seconds. Imagine how long it would take to click everything manually. And that stuff is illegal by the way: rejecting everything must be just as easy as accepting everything. If I come across such a site I typically just avoid them from that point forward.
That doesn’t sound realistic. There are real fines for non compliance and it’s trivial to find out what cookies you have.
You usually first get an injunction with some time to fix the issue, little risk of immediate fines.
So there is little reason to implement a working consent dialog unless you get a legal notice to do so. When the law came out we got a lot of such notices over the lack of the dialog, but after a usless dialog was implemented, it stopped.
Guess lawyers aren’t that tech savy or have better things to do.
Security theater.
EU, can you just make that shit go away? I am so goddamn tired of clicking cookie dialogs I could puke. kthxbye
Check out this add on that automatically decline data tracking popups https://addons.mozilla.org/sv-SE/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/
If anyone is interested in a good read about the active changes coming to Cookie Law in the future: https://www.itpro.com/network-internet/web-browser/369894/the-cookie-law-is-finally-crumbling-good-riddance
you should easily be able to give a few sources
I have plenty, like close to 100 pages where I personally implemented the useless dialoge. But I’m sure not going to taddle on them.
But if you want to go hunting for it yourself: try small wordpress sites or other small self-hosted blogs.
This obviously won’t be true for websites of major corporations.
Can you not at least rat out the major sites? Surely you don’t have any moral qualms with that
