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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by netvor@lemmy.world to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

This might be just EU thing, but is there an effective way to deal with endless "accept/reject cookies" dialogues?

Regardless of the politics behind, I think we can all agree that current state of practice around these dialogues is ...just awful.

Basically every site seems to use some sort of common middleware to create the actual dialogue and it's rare case when they are actually useful and user friendly


or at least not trying to "get you". At least for me, this leads to being more likely to look for "reject all" or even leave, even if my actual general preference is not that. I've just seen too many of them where clicking anything but "accept all" will lead to some sort of visual punishment.

Moreover, the fact that the dialogues are often once per domain, and by definition per-device and per-browser, they are just .. darn ... everywhere, all the frickin' time.

Question: What strategy have you developed over time to deal with these annoying flies? Just "accept all" muscle memory? Plugins? Using just one site (lemmy.world, obviously) and nothing else? Something better?

Bonus, question (technical take): is there a perspective that this could be dealt on browser technical level? To me it smells like the kind of problem that could be solved in a similar way like language -- ie. via HTTP headers that come from browser preferences.

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[-] david@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

Duck duck go browser with auto refuse turned on. It stops tracking cookies by default. And then I burn them all anyway when I'm done.

[-] TheInsane42@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I open 'settings' or 'show more' and disable all I can on most aitea, as that's usually enough. Some sites ar such a nousanse I either avoid them or just open a private window, accept all, read what I want to read and close the window, thus wiping all cookies.

[-] Piers@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Firefox has settings to automatically hit accept or to automatically hit deny or to first try to hit deny then hit accept if it didn't work. You could end up agreeing to things you might not want to either way though (as sometimes opt out and deny are seperate things you need to do both for.)

[-] bezerker03@lemmy.bezzie.world -2 points 1 year ago

This is an eu only thing. Eu passed a law years ago and since then we are boned.

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[-] Wowiejr@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

I don’t have a helpful answer, I’m just commenting so I can find out if anyone else does…

[-] Atemu@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

That's not how this works. Save the post if you want to return to it later. You will not be notified of new answers in this thread if you comment.

[-] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca -3 points 1 year ago

Couldn't agree more. I absolutely hate the half-assed job the EU did on this. Who the hell thought we'd want to get harassed on every site we visit?

[-] ErwinLottemann@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't get why this is even needed. AFAIK the user can set sites that are not allowed to set cookies in the browser settings in chrome and Firefox at least. In theory this should work even better and more reliable than those damn popups.

[-] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

They can but that doesn’t get rid of the banners, or worse the plague that is screen overlays.

[-] ErwinLottemann@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

I was talking about the way the law was made. Why does it require every site to implement a function that the browser already has and does better. They could have made it a requirement for browsers to inform the user about his possibility to block cookies from certain domains on the first launch, just like they made Microsoft to inform about other available browsers after the first startup of Windows XP (I think it was XP...).

But there is something even better coming I heard - there will be the possibility to have a 'trusted external service' handle the cookie opt-in-and-out for the users. WHY?! It looks like these laws are made by people without any kind of understanding how any of this even works...

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