The real MVPs are websites not needing a cookie banner because they only use required cookies for which you dont need a banner.
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.
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?
Straight to internet headquarters of course.
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).
The police
If that’s so it’s incredibly poorly enforced to the point where complaining is unlikely to have any effect at all. Most Sites have a button that leads To a secondary menu where cookie preferences can be set. Perhaps this meets the mandate you speak of? It’s a much more common setup.
Or just sites that don’t need a consent popup because they don’t sell your shit.
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?
People moved away from “I want to make a living” to “I need every ounce of money I can get”
capitalism removed the “I want to make a living” option and forced everyone into “I need every ounce of money I can get just to survive”
The real MVPs are website not having cookies altogether
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.
In Firefox 120+ about:config -> cookiebanners.service.mode 2 (from 0)
No addons required.
Istilldontcareaboutcookies + cookieautodelete - you da real mvp
You can also enable the easy list for cookies in uBlock Origin. It misses some but for the most part it works.
I’ve had that running for a while now, sadly some sites give you the option “accept all cookies” or “deny all by getting a monthly subscription” which if using this extension will automatically redirect you.
Aside from that little downside it has made browsing so much better.
✅ 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.
What’s there to transfer if they aren’t to be found at all?
Do they only transfer when you leave the site?
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?
EU Cookie Directive applies to all website owners within the EU aswell as Websites which target EU users.
It gives clear rules for different categories of cookies like how you need to display them and for which you actually need consent to be allowed to use them.
It also sets rules for how easy certain actions have to be and granularity.
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You probably should, according to https://gdpr.eu/cookies/ (not official eu resource) under cookie compliance section: “Make it as easy for users to withdraw their consent as it was for them to give their consent in the first place.”
I found two website with instructions to file a complaint: https://www.enzuzo.com/blog/how-to-file-a-gdpr-complaint and https://noyb.eu/en/exercise-your-rights-article-77-complain-your-dpa . both advising you to contact you DPA.
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.
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
Should be the default option
