Have you ever tried not pressing “Agree” on the cookie consent, at PC Gamer?
It seems impossible - the dialog pops out every single page surfed, regardless.
For example, if you press “More Options -> Save & Exit”.
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After getting into web development, I recognize that all this tracking and pages taking forever to load is the result of abuse, not incompetence.
It really sucks having people who went to business school make all of the decisions for us.
PC Gamer also hijacks your back button to show you suggested content when you try to leave. Trash website.
Tom’s Hardware has started doing this too. It’s positively user-hostile.
Every website I encounter that does that gets blocked from my Google Discover feed. I haven’t managed to be so thorough with my Lemmy link blacklist yet.
Google? Really?
Yep. It’s currently the lowest friction news feed I have that can be tailored to my preferences.
has yours started pushing ads? i didnt have them for years, and now every 5th article is an ad.
First ad comes after the 10th article, then ad, then 5 articles between every remaining ad.
Get Consent-o-mattic for your browser and it will actively decline those popups for you.
Holy smokes! Thank you very much for mentioning it, dear @slazer2au@lemmy.world ! Since, I try not installing addons that are not published open-sourced, but this one is! ✨
This add-on is built and maintained by workers at Aarhus University in Denmark. We are privacy researchers that got tired of seeing how companies violate the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Because the organisations that enforce the GDPR do not have enough resources, we built this add-on to help them out.
We looked at 680 pop-ups and combined their data processing purposes into 5 categories that you can toggle on or off. Sometimes our categories don’t perfectly match those on the website, so then we will choose the more privacy preserving option.
The first version of this add-on works with 4 popular pop-ups: Cookiebot, OneTrust, QuantCast, and TrustArc. The add-on is open source, so anyone can add additional pop-ups through our template system: https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic.
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Im pretty sure I just blocked all cookies every where and called it a day. They dont really do anything useful anywhere I go. Fuck it.
They’re pretty good for staying logged in
Can’t remember for PC Gamer, but when popups pester more than help, I hide them with Ublock Origin, or simply disable JavaScript for the domain.
There is also pre-made blocklists for uBlock Origin for Cookie Banners, which you judt have to turn on.
Combine with e.g. Cookie Autodelete to automatically remove cookies, and it’s effectively as if you declined.
Just block javascript with uBlock Origin for that site to make it go away.
I have no idea how these cookie consent things became the responsibility of the websites instead of the web browser handling it lol
Well, there was an effort to solve it on a technological level, via the Do Not Track header (DNT). The idea was that when users actively signal they don’t want to be tracked, then even in weaker jurisdictions, you can’t justify doing it anyways.
But Google and Facebook said outright that they would not honor DNT, which meant virtually no webpages could honor it, since Google Analytics and the Facebook Like-button were omnipresent on the web at that point.
And then Microsoft killed it off for good by enabling it by default in Internet Explorer. That meant the DNT header did not anymore necessarily represent a user actively choosing to not be tracked, so it became meaningless in court.Well, and after that had failed, the EU came about with the GDPR to solve it with laws.
But here it also needs to be said that a cookie banner is effectively only required, if you implement tracking.[1]
But of course, the ad industry did not want webpage owners to realize they could avoid needing a cookie banner by removing ads or going for non-tracking ads, so they spread a whole bunch of FUD.And now we’re here, with cookie banners virtually everywhere, which are often not even GDPR-compliant either (like the PC Gamer cookie banner here), since it’s supposed to be just as easy to decline, as it is to accept. If it is not, then that’s not legally consent, because consent has to be freely given.
TL;DR: Ad industry bad.
Cookie banners are only ever relevant for personal data (because the GDPR is). And you don’t either need them when the user has implicitly given their consent, for example when they put something into their shopping cart, then they obviously consent to you storing their shopping cart contents for the purpose of purchasing those items. ↩︎
I get the complaint, but if you don’t accept any cookies then they can’t remember that you refuse to accept cookies. It’s a catch-22
I think technical cookies are allowed, and this is just ‘asshole design’
TIL. Yeah that’s just lazy design then
Of course, thank you, and I do realize that, but:
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I tried selecting sections that where not associated with othe vendors - same result;
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Shouldn’t it still be allowed to store cookies for the same vendor/domain, without any consent, by default.
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There are other means/API than cookies to store consent state in common browsers, including: LocalStorage, IndexedDB, SessionStorage, CacheStorage etc.
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