Posted September 07, 2022
Fairly recent, the darn cookie popup. It's supposedly to make the site work better. I never had any problem navigating these sites. So what's the use to bother anyone?
Keith_I2
New User
Registered: Oct 2019
From United States
rtcvb32
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Registered: Aug 2013
From United States
Posted September 07, 2022
Probably trackers of some description. Though i have on a lot of things to auto-delete cookies not on my white-list.
Ice_Mage
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Registered: Mar 2020
From Romania
Posted September 07, 2022
The short story is that around 2011, the EU passed a law that requires websites to nag you about cookies. Since virtually every single site uses cookies, browsing the web is now a significantly more frustrating experience.
rtcvb32
echo e.lolfiu_fefiipieue|tr valueof_pi [0-9]
Registered: Aug 2013
From United States
Posted September 08, 2022
Then again sites like Reddit where i can't get rid of the nag makes me want to avoid it period.
lenny3
New User
Registered: Apr 2012
From United Kingdom
Posted September 08, 2022
For the rescue, I don't care about Cookies Firefox addon, or option to enable in Adblock Plus - solves it. 99% of cookie spam gone.
Ice_Mage
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Registered: Mar 2020
From Romania
Posted September 09, 2022
Cookie annoyance blocking lists were useful for a time. Nowadays, most sites I visit don't work if you don't accept the cookie warning. Since I don't even know it's there, these formerly helpful add-ons are just making things worse.
§pec†re
Reeeeeeeeeee!!!
Registered: Sep 2008
From United Kingdom
Posted October 28, 2022
The rule I can circumvent
See, there are a lot of small prints in the GDPR text. It’s 11 chapters with 99 articles, after all. And the Cookie Law has even more text. Nobody has time to read it all!
But the real trick is in this one, hidden, line. I’ll paraphrase, because the actual line is boring,lawyer-corporate-enterprise, speak.
In no fewer words, GDPR & the Cookie Law states:
Stop. Fucking. Tracking. Everyone. On. The. Internet.
Now this isn’t entirely true, I should admit. If I were to use a few more words, the summary of GDPR would be:
Stop. Collecting. Everyone’s. Personal. Browsing. Data. On. Every. Website.
As a small aside: yes, I am available for hire as a copywriter.
Now that we briefly summarized the policy, what’s the loophole?
The loophole
Turns out to be quite simple really.
Want to know why I don’t have a cookie notice on this site? It’s because I don’t track you.
I don’t track your browser habits, I don’t collect your screen resolutions or fingerprint you in any way. In fact, I couldn’t care less who you are or why you’re reading this.
There’s no Google Analytics tracking, no Google Ads or Double Click advertising. There’s no hidden Facebook or Twitter pixel.
And guess what? The site still works. We don’t need any of that!
Post edited October 28, 2022 by §pec†re