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consent-o-matic my goat
I just wish it was a native feature of browsers instead of something that is part of the page. Like, all the other permissions - camera, microphone, Bluetooth, USB, etc access - are native, why can't be the "hey let me write some crap onto your device that other pages may or may not read" and "hey lemme see what I wrote onto your device when invoked from another website" requests be native too?
Librewolf doesn't save cookies by default, and you can toggle them on if you need to
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- install ublock origin
- enable "cookie notices" filters
Gasp
I'm so dumb. I didn't even know I had to enable that... God it should physically hurt to be this stupid
Not really, its kind of one those things; if you don't know, how could you? Unless you're the kinda person to sit there and read every option of everything.
What if I want it to hurt? :3
Add https://* to your filter list.
lmaoooooo asked and answered
Surprisingly, it doest actually block sites, it just makes them all look like they're from 1992.
http://* really blocks them.
Waow
Just install the Consent-o-matic extension and you get the benefit of rejecting without the faff 90% of the time
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I love the concept of "Legitimate interest"... Like, why the hell anyone even consider storing my data in ILLEGITIMATE interest?
Yeah, and apparently "we're legitimately interested in your data" is enough to clear that ridiculously low threshold 🤬
I would love to know how much my data is actually worth, like to the cent and why.
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I don’t even know what legitimate interest means. Are they saying they’re going to sell my data to someone if they have a legit interest in my data? Who would buy data if they DIDNT have a legit interest in it? I don’t get it
I hoped it would be mentioned before, but in the EU It shall be as easy to withdraw as to give consent.
Report such sites for non-compliance.
I like the button that says reject non essential. That should be a required button.
It is actually.
Enforcement is crap.
(for websites you don't use often)
- Open link in private tab
- Accept all
You need to add 500 surveillance devices at the end of the top segment, and 498 at the end of the bottom segment
Or worse: pay to decline cookies
Surefire way for a site to ensure they immediately make my blocklist
My old email provider added that and I still have some accounts linked to it... IMAP is now the only way I access that mailbox
“You are our product, user”
On many websites, the cookies are created no matter what you choose. It's a dark pattern to get you to accept all, yes, but In the end it's often meaningless.
Use a decent browser like librewolf which isolates cookies so only the site that created them can access them and clears all cookies on exit - this protects you from bad effects of cookies so you can just accept all. However, you're still susceptible to other methods of tracking (like IP address or browser fingerprint based tracking) unless you use Tor Browser or something similar.
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UBlock handles them well if you enable the cookie notice list. If one slips through, I now accept all because cookies are erased as soon as I close my browser
I just zap the banner and make a mental note not to use this website again. If it’s something essential to me, I’d probably add a custom filter - but that hasn’t been an issue so far.
Isnt this a feature in base Firefox? You can tell it to delete all cookies on close except for sites you add exceptions for
By default firefox can only do this on browser close not on tab close. I never used this extension but this seems like a good upgrade to only deleting on exit.
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I'm using Consent-O-Matic and it works surprisingly well.
Why would you put extra effort into telling them you want cookies? Just block everything.
While you're wasting your time on clicking shitty popups, I'm already reading the page.
I recently got an ad about these rail chairs for elderly to get up and down the stairs. I am inu 30s and I am proud that me clicking out all non-essential cookies doesn't bring me related ads.
Also, that ad somehow passed through ublock. Not sure how 😅
i used to get spam calls about back pain medication, i'm 26, no back pain yet, thankfully. but they kept calling me nonetheless
thankfully i'm european so one day i cited the law to be forgotten, and once they told me "sorry we can't :(" and i replied "well you better fix that because that's illegal :)" they hung up immediately and never called me again :D
I am authoring an IETF draft to help with this. The agreement formats recently got approved by IEEE.
Oh, where can I inform myself more about your work?
The main site: https://myterms.info/
My draft, which will likely be introduced to the list this week with a BOF (meeting) request for IETF 126 in Vienna: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-curtis-myterms/
It's focused on contractual agreements overall, but it supports machine negotiation based on headers, which is how our reference implementations handles cookie banners.
Got librewolf, turned the settings a bit more strict than what comes base so cookies and site data don't even get saved. Makes me feel good, with that level of ease.
Me on the work laptop
I just use the I Don't Care About Cookies addon.
I don't know if it's just agreeing or disagreeing, but I suspect they're all selling your data regardless of what you pick.
What browsers really should implement is to store all third party cookies in a jar for the specific site I am on until I navigate to another domain or close the tab. The cookies are saved and returned to the 3rd party sites embedded in the site I use. But if the same 3rd party sites are also embedded in other sites, they have to send fresh cookies.
Cookies become useless for tracking and all the legislation specifically around them can be axed.
That feature is called containers on Firefox
I just run uMatrix and AdNauseam on Zen. If a banner shows up after allowing scripts its the good ol' right click > block element.
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