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Can't seem to view this site without accepting 50 different marketing cookies. No thanks.

by orf 7y ago

TeMPOraL 7y ago
> To continue enjoying the free content made available to you on this website, you must indicate that you understand and accept Bonnier Corp.’s use of cookies by selecting the "Allow all cookies" button below. What. This is not how GDPR popups are supposed to work...
- supakeen 7y ago
  If only they had a button 'no marketing', the essential cookies all seem ok.
  - TeMPOraL 7y ago
    That's what I expected to find when I clicked on "Details". But no, the screen only informs on the tracking being done. There's no option but to accept all cookies wholesale.
    - tgsovlerkhgsel 7y ago
      Why do they even have the annoying screen at that point, if they're not going to get valid consent anyways?
- jon-wood 7y ago
  I’ve not opened it, but I’m willing to bet they’ve already cookies you by then as well.
spectramax 7y ago
Looking at old Popular Science magazines, I actually don’t mind ads in the magazine. The whole advertisement business in the era of internet has rotten to the point where you can’t go anywhere on the internet without some fucking analytics script ID’ing you. Fuck advertisement. It’s the cancer of modern society. We need a drastically different model of product/service discovery. I don’t want to see ads when I’m doing something important, I want to see ads when I am need for buying something specific. Back in the day, you could just browse a thick book of Yellow Pages look under the section V: “Vacuum repair services”. Doing the same on the internet will show me ads about buying a vacuum cleaner in every social media platform. I don’t want to be friends with people that are in the advertisement industry.
- Scoundreller 7y ago
  On the plus side, those "follow you around" ads make low-profit content profitable because they can still serve profitable ads. I know that, before ads followed you around like this, I only published content in high-profit industries (finance, telecom services) because otherwise it was unprofitable.

Can't seem to view this site without accepting 50 different marketing cookies. No thanks.

by orf 7y ago

Can't seem to view this site without accepting 50 different marketing cookies. No thanks.

> To continue enjoying the free content made available to you on this website, you must indicate that you understand and accept Bonnier Corp.’s use of cookies by selecting the "Allow all cookies" button below. What. This is not how GDPR popups are supposed to work...

supakeen 7y ago
If only they had a button 'no marketing', the essential cookies all seem ok.
- TeMPOraL 7y ago
  That's what I expected to find when I clicked on "Details". But no, the screen only informs on the tracking being done. There's no option but to accept all cookies wholesale.
  - tgsovlerkhgsel 7y ago
    Why do they even have the annoying screen at that point, if they're not going to get valid consent anyways?
jon-wood 7y ago
I’ve not opened it, but I’m willing to bet they’ve already cookies you by then as well.

spectramax 7y ago

Looking at old Popular Science magazines, I actually don’t mind ads in the magazine. The whole advertisement business in the era of internet has rotten to the point where you can’t go anywhere on the internet without some fucking analytics script ID’ing you. Fuck advertisement. It’s the cancer of modern society. We need a drastically different model of product/service discovery. I don’t want to see ads when I’m doing something important, I want to see ads when I am need for buying something specific. Back in the day, you could just browse a thick book of Yellow Pages look under the section V: “Vacuum repair services”. Doing the same on the internet will show me ads about buying a vacuum cleaner in every social media platform. I don’t want to be friends with people that are in the advertisement industry.

Scoundreller 7y ago
On the plus side, those "follow you around" ads make low-profit content profitable because they can still serve profitable ads. I know that, before ads followed you around like this, I only published content in high-profit industries (finance, telecom services) because otherwise it was unprofitable.