Tell HN: Sites are bluffing with their cookie pop-ups
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I think this is fairly commonly understood in the UK/Europe at least where they tend to mandate this rubbish. Surely the law should just state that Necessary only is the default... On some sites you have to drag 10s-100s of sliders to turn off all of the optional cookies. This is a good way of knowing a site I don't want to visit!
Fun fact: you already can have a site that only has functional cookies without needing a cookie popup. Of course companies would really like you to accept advertising cookies, leading to the horrible state of every site now having a cookie popup.
I'd be much happier if the rule was: necessary for functionality only, no action required. Anything else must be an active choice. I'd eliminate the "legitimate interest" category as it's so heavily abused.
In practice I have third party cookies disabled in my browser and most things still work fine - random exceptions though (the SAS airline website being a particularly annoying one).
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In practice I have third party cookies disabled in my browser and most things still work fine - random exceptions though (the SAS airline website being a particularly annoying one).
If you care about these things consider joining noyb.eu
You should read the law. It stated that it is illegal if tracking options are defaulted. Tracking must be opt-in.
It's just that nobody in the US gives a shit, and factually a Delaware LLC is unsueable due to territorial jurisdictions.
It's just that nobody in the US gives a shit, and factually a Delaware LLC is unsueable due to territorial jurisdictions.
> On some sites you have to drag 10s-100s of sliders to turn off all of the optional cookies.
ah the ole cookie tax return
ah the ole cookie tax return
You can use Consent-O-Matic to auto-reject the sliders. It's not perfect, but when it works it saves time and when it doesn't you're no worse off.
UK here, if I can't reject all and firefox's reading mode doesn't work I leave the site tbh
If the sites are bluffing maybe you can too.
If the actual page content is loaded and the cookie is just a modal box slapped on top of it, right click the cookie modal box > open inspector > remove the child element of body that contains the cookie box. If cookie box disabled scrolling, select body tag at the inspector and tick off the overflow and position stylings to default.
If the actual page content is loaded and the cookie is just a modal box slapped on top of it, right click the cookie modal box > open inspector > remove the child element of body that contains the cookie box. If cookie box disabled scrolling, select body tag at the inspector and tick off the overflow and position stylings to default.
This may be old news to many, but I found it mildly amusing.