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Comment by curiousgal | Hacker News Reader

Seriously fuck the BBC and their Cookie Consent prompt, do they really expect me to manually untick every single vendor?

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No, they expect you to give up and accept them.

The worst one I ever saw was where above the fold items were unchecked, but the below the fold items were checked where you couldn’t see them.

You could use Firefox and a cookie-handler plug-in.

Yeah I just browse with a profile that deletes all cookies and history when I close the browser. Then just accept or dismiss all those stupid cookie consent popups.

I've seen many of consent forms mention tracking beyond cookies and cross-devices.

Are you sure that by accepting you aren't just accepting legally to continue to be tracked with all other means?

If true, then deleting cookies only cause them to ask again next time, but you're still fully tracked.

See https://www.kompyte.com/blog/5-ways-to-identify-your-users-w... (just found it) for examples of tracking without cookies.

They don't have it on mobile yet, though you can use the "I don't care about cookies" UBlock filterlist

More like "they had, but decided to remove". Firefox on Android used to support any extensions, but they cut that down. You can still get the functionality in browsers like Icecatmobile, though.

If you mean the old XUL extensions with zero security? I think that transition was worth losing some extensions due to the more strict sandboxing.

Alexander Hanff is trying to sort that: https://twitter.com/alexanderhanff/status/147830653943796940...

How about just not using their website is it is so annoying? The more audience they lose, the more apt they C we’ll be to change it.

That man is a moron. A tweet to a large organization's twitter handle is not a formal complaint.

I guess sending in a letter isn't as good for social media engagement, though.

I'm curious as to what you see (I'm in the UK so there are very strict legal requirements that the BBC don't show ads so my page will be different to yours) for me the cookie prompt is at the top and pushes the content down a little but I can ignore it and see everything. That meets gdpr requirements as I can still do what I want and unless I tick OK nothing should be set.

That sounds like a different experience to what we get in the UK - one cookie prompt and you're good to go for many months (at least).

Could be the BBC's fault, possibly due to in-country legalese though?

Use incognito, or Firefox + Multi-account Container + Temporary containers

uBlock Origin + EasyList Cookies or Fanboy Annoyances.

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