Please just let me opt out of this cookie consent idiocy. How are we making anything better with all these cookie consent pop ups?
EasyList Cookie: https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easylist-cookie.t...
AdGuard Annoyances filter: http://adguard.com/filters.html#annoyances
(There is also "Fanboy’s Annoyance", but it blocks more than just cookie notifications. For example, it blocks social media share buttons which I use a lot. So I don't use it.)
The prompts were turning me crazy especially since I use a few privacy extensions that made it impossible for the websites to remember my settings. It meant even browsing the same website lead to one consent form per page I clicked...
This addon [1] will let you do just that. You can configure it to tell all sites to slurp as much of your data as they want, if that's what you prefer.
> How are we making anything better with all these cookie consent pop ups?
"We" are giving people back control over what happens with information about them. This is widely considered a good idea, though perhaps not near you ;) The pop-up part can be automated by software if you prefer a one-size-fits-all configuration, as described above.
[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-mat...
No. We are training people to click on every button and consent to anything that they are presented.
And the regulation isn't for tech-savvy power users, it's for the general population. And they do click every consent banner.
Even the most tech-savvy HNer was clicking through those without any thought and soon turned auto-consent on (aka disabled UAC).
With auto updates, you can't even verify that it isn't doing anything unwanted just once.
It could easily make sense to the developer to one day sell to someone who wants to do bad things which is commonly what happens with these.
I wish this wasn't true because add-ons like these are powerful and required for the modern web.
I think that they should scare you because they're, not surreptitiously but by design, consenting to innumerable requests to share your data without your interaction; but I guess to each their own scariness.
A cookie policy with lots of legal jargon that's 5 pages long and impossible to understand is probably hiding the fact that the visitors are the only product of that platform.
On the other hand, if the cookie policy is straightforward, honest, and transparent I will be more likely to engage with that platform, even if I am the product. Less information will never make you safer or more well equipped. Especially in cyber space.
Think of it like getting a contractor for your house. Do you want the guy from Craigslist who only takes cash or do you want the licensed journeyman with insurance who invested in making sure he is well equipped and minimally liable?
Provider that gives me 1-5 check marks to make once (and where the default settings are "off"?) - trustworthy. Anything like Verizon properties which gives an intentionally bad UX with thousands of clicks, information overload, dark patterns where 'accept' = 'accept all' even when you unchecked some boxes.. all this tells me I don't want to support this site.
And gdpr does much more, I don't think Google and Facebook exports used to really be possible so easily.
I see it as MY data and YOUR data is pretty worthless. Aggregate data has value, but then that doesn't contain much insight about any individual at all.
Isn't it true that the more people's data you have, the less it says about any individual?
I don't see why it would. Unless legally compelled not to, why wouldn't you save both PII and aggregate?
See here, under "Cookie Compliance": https://gdpr.eu/cookies/