I don't know, I have an extension that refuses cookies.
This makes life safer and easier.
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Which generation is that lol?
I'd rather say the same people who rejected cookies are also rejecting AI, no?
There's no need to turn everything into a genration war. Computer literacy and a sense for maintaining privacy comes and goes with different groups of people depending on their upbringing. The ones who cared about their privacy to the point that they would refuse cookies on every site are definitely not the ones who roll over and let the AI agents access all of their data. A lack of good education and deliberate influence of the advertisement and tech industry has led us to this point and snarky flamebait on twitter isn't getting us anywhere.
I agree. Op reasoning is flawed in many ways: both the relation to generations, and the assumption that people who do x are destined to do y.
The most infuriating part of this statement is the supposed relation to generations. It is yet another discriminatory behaviour which usually goes under the radar. Just like it happens within sexism, op has needlessly correlated things to age.
But it makes it easy to understand through the lense of our existing prejudices!
What this person said
Which generation refused cookies?
I feel like most look at me like I'm crazy, regardless of age, when I deny/only accept the functional cookies on sites every single visit.
There's UBO filter-lists for that.
I just have my browser set up to delete all cookies whenever I close it. You want to set a cookie, knock yourself out, website.
(I do also have various things that block some, but if more people just had "delete cookies at browser close" as default, that'd be a big deal.)
Yeah, I don't think the two groups of people named in this post have much overlap. They seem pretty distinct to me as well
When the Financial Times published the article, "This Bug in Your PC is a Smart Cookie" on 12 February 1996 I remember quite a lot of people getting upset about it. At the time most were on dialup so you had a different IP assigned every time you connected so the idea you were being tracked in any way was a shock.
Should be denying all. I refuse to use websites that say there are "functional" or "required" cookies. That's bullshit. Also use extension that block and/or scrub cookies.
What about "persistent" cookies? I spent hours and was unable to find them, let alone remove them.
Some cookies are useful, like the ones keeping you logged in. Not all cookies are created with the sole purpose of tracking you.
Apart from keeping you logged in, like the other commenter mentioned, cookies can for example be used to save the theme you are using (light/dark) or the language you picked. It would be annoying to have to reselect that every time you move to a different subpage.
Your browser passes theme and language recommendations to every site you visit. So outside of passwords, there are fewer reasons for cookies than you may presume.
uBlock origin has a filter available for these cookie popups
Please stop with the generational strife nonsense. It only serves as an attempt to distract from class war. We are all in this together against the rich bastards, regardless of our age.
KIDS THESE DAYS, AMIRITE?
Bold words from someone on X
What generation is that???
just remember we live in a society
Is it that bad? I see there are people giving full access to AI but I always thought it wasn't so much to refer to it as "a generation".
Remember, the only real separation in society is generated by the upper class!
It's very much not a generational thing. More gen alpha might use AI because they're young and keep up with trends more, but there's still plenty that denounce it and plenty of boomers who accept it.
More gen alpha might use AI because they're young and keep up with trends more
That's not entirely true. There are cases where gen alpha students revolted against AI usage. One of the incidents was about the usage of Chromebooks which forced students to use AI - bottom line is, people where upset.
Literally didn't read the rest of my sentence.
there's still plenty that denounce it
You're arguing my point for me that it's not a generational thing
Treat it as an accompanying argument rather than arguing a point for your sake. Its just a different perspective exceplifying the point by focusing on the impacted group.
Its because we thought r2d2 was cool and we all secretly want a robot friend.
It has been interesting to me to hear tech professionals talk about giving AI Agents access to their desktops, and I suppose it's just the next step after people gave everything over to voice assistants.
I've just heard way too many stories of GenAI and LLM products screwing things up in a major way to ever be comfortable with that and never really got into smart home technology on the assumption (now proven correct) that the devices snoop on their users. I have a smart phone but generally keep it in a faraday bag.