And there is 0 legitimate reasons to use cookies in 2025, there are technologies for everything that do not coincidentally do illegal tracking.
Ublock Origin
ublock origin has a cookie banners list that isn’t enabled by default but can filter out a lot of these. try it out!
The consent tools that make you open up a second window to manually reject everything can fuck right off
That trouble exists because “Art. 7 GDPR only requires that withdrawing consent must be as easy as providing consent. It does not state that declining consent must be as easy as consenting.” and is being closed as more and more courts rule on it.
I believe all of the default cookie banner plugins will update and add the Reject All button in the first layer soon.There are arguments against requiring a “Reject All” button in the first layer of a cookie consent management solution. This requirement is not explicitly included in the GDPR or the EU ePrivacy Directive. Art. 7 GDPR only requires that withdrawing consent must be as easy as providing consent. It does not state that declining consent must be as easy as consenting. However, the trend of the published views of the data protection authorities is towards including a “Reject All” button also in the first layer. Organizations should thus review compliance of their cookie consent solutions.
The Hanover Administrative Court in Germany delivered a landmark ruling that strengthens digital privacy protections by targeting manipulative cookie banners as Germany continues to take a strong stance against manipulative cookie consent banners that engage in dark patterns. This decision, led by Lower Saxony Data Protection Officer Denis Lehmkemper, mandates that websites must provide users with a clear, easy, and genuine choice to reject cookies, specifically requiring a visible “reject all” button alongside any “accept all” option.
Idk that seems like a pretty big tool…
“We and our 2,565 advertising partners respect your privacy” is always a good laugh before hitting decline on the ones uBlock doesn’t catch automatically
“My sibling in Christ, if you truly respected my privacy you wouldn’t need to ask for this.”
You can turn on a filter list in uBlock Origin, to have those Cookie notices automatically hidden.
Combine with e.g. Cookie AutoDelete to automatically delete whatever cookies still get stored.
I’ll always upvote Ricardo.
One of the reasons I use private-mode 99.999% of the time.
That fixes local logs. Like for your partner seeing your porn in browser history on a shared computer, or ‘cis woman fucks trans woman with massive xenomorph forehead strap-on’ to not auto complete in front of your boss when typing in a search.
… And the cookies are also deleted when I close the window, where I can then re-open the browser for a different site if I like.
I think you’re probably going to be surprised when you discover how little that does to stop you getting tracked by the dozens of ad networks running their tracking pixels on that site.
I know… I’m just responding to the current subject of the meme, cookies.
who’s the dude in the pic
Ricardo Milos
Ricardo Milos
I wonder what he’s up to now, 20 years later. Rumor has it he’s never been on any social media. He’s just out there living in the real world, living an authentic unpretentious life.
I’m pretty sure he died a few years ago.
Did you know you can block these with most decent adblock plugins? Hide that element babyyyyy
But do you want the cookie, or the ask, to fuck off?
Yes
Brave browser can block all third party cookies and delete the ones from any website you close all tabs from iif you don’t want the cookies from those sites to be saved
Brave Browser’s CEO is an anti LGBT+ bigot.
Use Firefox with Ublock Origin instead.
Yeah but then you have to run Brave browser 🤢
I’m sure the same can be accomplished on Firefox-based browsers with an extension or two
Yeah, third-party cookies are blocked by default and the remaining cookies can be automatically deleted with Cookie AutoDelete.
Brave is cryptofasch bullshit. Do not use it.
