how certain are you that this will truly block them all? Many of these things may have a “Legitimate interest” thing going on, and I do not trust those prompts to object to that by pressing “reject all”
legitimate interest is still not a valid legal basis for data collection/tracking in Europe, so it’s not that big of an issue (…but it still allows them to do more they usually can without “legitimate interest”). also most tracking scripts and cookies will be blocked by uBlock anyway
uBlock origin on Firefox blocks almost all tracking sites. You can enable cookies or disable them, it doesn’t matter because they aren’t sent anywhere. Unless the site has some homebrew tracking solution.
Some US news websites still geoblock European visitors rather than fix their site to not track the ever loving fuck out of visitors who say no. So imagine what they’re doing to their domestic visitors.
I liked it when some news sites did plain text only if you didn’t accept cookies. So no cookies, no ads and don’t have to deal with your crappy css? Why would I ever accept that? It was wonderful.
by the way, I’ve always been subconsciously curious but never asked anybody, what happens when we click “ok yes I accept cookies?” And What happens if we click " not ok, I don’t accept cookies?"
Depends on the implementation. If you decline, it’s either 1) no cookies are written at all and you get promoted again the next time you visit that site or 2) a single cookie is written only remembering that you declined the prompt.
What’s the issue with “strictly necessary” cookies? Seems like that would keep me from seeing about 70% of the pages I visit, if I were to completely refuse SN cookies. I just turn off all extemporaneous cookies. If they want to remember me for the few weeks between a cookie purge, go right ahead.
EU Cookie Directive applies to all website owners within the EU aswell as Websites which target EU users.
It gives clear rules for different categories of cookies like how you need to display them and for which you actually need consent to be allowed to use them.
It also sets rules for how easy certain actions have to be and granularity.
(very simplified)
“well, we’re not selling it, we’re just using 247 advertising agencies to measure the general performance of our site. Nothing targeted, we’d never do that.” - totally legit companies that absolutely value user rights
Also an easy way to store needed variables between pages. For news sites without a sign up this isn’t necessary but for actual web apps that live across different subdomains it can be a nice to have.
Man the worst I saw was a petrol station, when you walked in up to the tills there was this little sign on a floppy plastic thing that said they had face recognition running and a QR code to scan. The text of the sign mentioned “legitimate interests” but in no way directed users to scan the code and go to the website to object their consent.
It’s such bullshit. These companies collect up the data we produce and sell it for pure profit, without offering anything in return. The data brokerage industry is worth multiple trillions of $ per year, with only $8bn people in the world it stands to reason that the average user’s data is worth $1,000 per year, but they just pick that out of our pockets and use it against us.
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