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Does anyone not accept cookies when they visit a website? If not why not? I often clear mine out or use private mode to get around "you have read your maximum 5
by collyw 7y ago
Does anyone not accept cookies when they visit a website? If not why not? I often clear mine out or use private mode to get around "you have read your maximum 5 articles please subscribe now". What are genuine reasons for not wanting to visit a website with cookies?
- ninkendo 7y agoUsually when I'm visiting a website, it's one of many sites/articles/search results I could be looking at. If a site tells me something like: - Sign up for a newsletter! - Please turn off your adblocker! - Please accept our use of cookies to continue - Pardon the interruption... I close the tab and try the next search result/article/whatever I want to see. Websites don't exist in a vacuum. Nearly always, they have to compete for my attention with other possible uses of my time. I'm going to pick the one that wastes my time the least.
- collyw 7y agoI am the same with most of those. Medium being a particular pain in the butt. But almost every website uses cookies, I don't see them being such a problem.
- ninkendo 7y agoYeah, I guess it's not that I don't want to accept cookies, it's that I don't want to reject them either (I'd rather close the tab than do either one.) This sounds like GDPR is a bad thing for people like me, but I view it as a long game: as sites see increased bounce rates due to cookie popups, maybe it'll change the equation in favor of not having tracking cookies in the first place. I feel like I'm doing my part to help create that future every time I close the tab when getting nagged about cookies. (And GDPR doesn't require dialogs about all cookies, you're allowed to use cookies to have sessions/logons without nagging.)