Just watching it going through the banner and disabling everything is mesmerizing.
And there is 0 legitimate reasons to use cookies in 2025, there are technologies for everything that do not coincidentally do illegal tracking.
Have fun building a login without cookies. I’m sure it’s possible, but session cookies are by far the most common and secure mechanism, used basically everywhere including Lemmy
Have plenty of thos. The fact they are common is a shame.
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
The EU has a globally available browser extension called Consent-O-Matic that rejects all cookies for you before you even see those popups. It’s available for every browser I’ve used so far. It’s also free.
Thanks!
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
I also love seeing the “legitimate interest” ad/tracking cookies that don’t get disabled automatically. GDPR’s big mistake was allowing the trackers to decide whether or not they have a legitimate interest. Because of course a bunch of scummy ones just automatically list themselves as legitimate.
“My sibling in Christ, if you truly respected my privacy you wouldn’t need to ask for this.”
Ublock Origin
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.
who’s the dude in the pic
Ricardo Milos
cool my heart’s broken now. this man will never love me. life has nothing of value. jumps
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.
What makes you think he’s dead?
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.
Did you know you can block these with most decent adblock plugins? Hide that element babyyyyy
You rarely even need to hide the element; Just enable the Cookie Consent blocklist in uBlock Origin.
wow, didn’t know unblock origin had that. I need to go find that feature
There are a bunch of blocklists in the settings that aren’t enabled by default. I’d suggest you go take a look at them.
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
It’s always funny seeing the huge disconnect between Lemmy and Reddit on this one specific topic. On Reddit, Brave’s marketing was wildly successful. If you say anything negative about it, you’ll almost immediately be buried in downvotes. But here, it is known as a conservative cryptobro grift, so mentioning anything positive about it gets you attacked.
I always assume the Brave proponents on Lemmy are recent Reddit transplants.
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 Browser’s CEO is an anti LGBT+ bigot.
Use Firefox with Ublock Origin instead.
Brave is cryptofasch bullshit. Do not use it.
