“Save preferences”? Save them where exactly?
Accept allBlock allAnd then the companies get all uwu but adblocking is stealing and damages our revenue! 😭
Ublock origin is always the solution
Many sites have a one click “reject all” now, and it’s getting more common over time.
That’s because they have to. If I remember correctly it is supposed to be as easy to reject as to accept, but until it has been judged in a court it is “unknown” what the sites can or should do.
Which doesn’t reject all.
They need a cookie to remember your choice otherwise it has to ask you every single time. It’s the paradox of cookies!
There’s always a category “necessary”, so the preference cookie just falls in that.
I don’t understand why US sites display this when their audience is US only.
California also requires this, as well as Canada
Which US sites have US visitors only? Apart from government.
Probably from a common template.
The part that annoys me is that I have Do Not Track enabled in my browser and there’s one (1) website I use that respects this choice, as intended by GDPR. (geizhals.de)
All others choose to bother me about their stupid ad tracking.
The Do Not Track header has been discontinued by most browsers. It’s the sad state of affairs.
In an ideal world, all websites shouldn’t even show a cookie alert if you have that header on.
i just disabled cookie persistence in my browsers.
now it doesn’t matter if i click accept all or not
It does, the GDPR does not talk about cookies but tracking consent. Cookies are one of the tools for tracking.
Also disabling cookie persistence does nothing against in session tracking.
Install “I still don’t care about cookies” on Firefox based browsers.
Cookies are declined immediately and the banners closed. Works most of the time unless it’s a custom non-standard cookie prompt implementation.
You’re welcome.
It dosn’t delete cookies. I use ‘Cookie Autodelete’ for that togehter with ‘I still don’t care about cookies’, which is the community version of ‘I don’t care about cookies’. It is much better at removing the Popups.
I would recommend enabling strict mode in Firefox. But then Cookie AutoDelete does not work in Firefox if you enable Total Cookie Protection (which is enabled in strict and standard mode).
But you don’t even need an extension to prevent cookie persistence.
Also try LibreWolf if you want to discard cookies by default
No need to change browser, that’s just a setting in Firefox that’s enabled by default in LibreWolf but you can simply enable it in Firefox.
Consent-o-Matric also works great on Firefox
I too use this.
Cookies are accepted immediately and the banners closed
For those wanting more information, the extension description states:
This add-on will remove these cookie warnings from almost all websites!
In most cases, the add-on just blocks OR hides cookie related pop-ups.
When it’s needed for the website to work properly, it will automatically accept the cookie policy for you (sometimes it will accept all and sometimes only necessary cookie categories, depending on what’s easier to do).
It doesn’t delete cookies.
Fair enough but I almost never had it accept anything. I monitor cookies. Perhaps on some sites ot does that, then.
But yea it doesn’t delete cookies. I wouldn’t want it to anyway? I want to stay logged into my stuff.
I recommend LibreWolf if you want to disable and discard all cookies by default.
No, not really, and taken out of context. Glad someone replied to you already.
Acting like I’m spreading misinformation while your comment still clearly states it declines which it does not. I was correcting that part.
Although I see how my comment could mean all cookies get accepted. Wasn’t my intention
Nope, declined
OK Google
Why oh why didn’t the lawmakers add an obligation to use a standardized cookies selection popup.
I remember day one of it coming into effect and it was already obvious this was a necessity.
Lobbying. One of those laws pretending to do the right thing but sabotaged.
Or maybe its even worse than that. Before you could just have the cookies deleted. But if you do that now you get the awful popup every time, so you just accept them in the end.
I know I do.
This law has made me accept cookies spying.Because those laws were made with good intentions in mind.
But businesses never have good intentions, especially if it eats into their revenue. So they use malicious compliance to make it seem like it is the law that is bad.
So really naive lawmakers then? Come on, that’s not how you make a company obey, everyone knows that, yet legislators time and again do an oopsie and make a highly symbolic law that obviously won’t work because there’s no coercion!
That’s already part of the GDPR, companies just aren’t complying with it.
From the official GDPR site:
To comply with the regulations governing cookies under the GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive you must:
- Receive users’ consent before you use any cookies except strictly necessary cookies.
- Provide accurate and specific information about the data each cookie tracks and its purpose in plain language before consent is received.
- Document and store consent received from users.
- Allow users to access your service even if they refuse to allow the use of certain cookies
- Make it as easy for users to withdraw their consent as it was for them to give their consent in the first place.
“Make it easy”
If you make a vague law that companies can circumvent they will do it.
That’s why you force the use of a standardized menu, because nothing else makes sense, no? The same way you don’t leave it to the tobacco manufacturers to implement the warnings on the box ; you force them all to adopt the same one that’s clearly visible.
It feels like it’s either severe incompetence, or the work of lobbyists. But I don’t know enough about the matter
Not “make it easy”, it’s “make it as easy”, meaning it can’t be easier to accept than to revoke, much clearer bar.
And you dont think that’s really vague though?
Why not mandate a x by x pixel popup with a specific wording?
I remember this French company, I think SFR (phone), which had to show on their website their condemnation. Since there weren’t clear specifications they made it so the message would disappear when you scrolled down one pixel, so almost no one saw it.
Well, that could make the popup unusable depending on screen size. I think the wording is pretty clear, the issue is just that there’s no followup and not clear enough incentives to avoid skirting the rules at the moment.
Pixel or screen %, you know what I mean.
But yeah no followup seems to be an issue with the GDPR
ublock has filter lists for these things. Doesn’t always work but helps a lot.
the nice part is that if you don’t ever respond to the popup, they are not allowed to presume you accepted
Consent-o-magic
Or just use PopUpOff.
I don’t consent to jack shit that tries to hold my time hostage lol
Should have been handled on protocol level. Cookies get priority levels, set browser to only accept required cookies and done. Everyone just wanted to do it the easy way… add a banner and ask the user… or dont even make the banner, call a third party library that does it for you… and has its own tracking code… yay!
We also had the Do Not Track header, and then Microsoft fucked it up and now no browsers support it.
Out of principle I always reject all, even though they are blocked by pf blocker anyway.
