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> Sorry, which websites were warning users of potential security issues before? Not just websites, but applications too. If you had to click "fuck off" to 100
by knorker 6y ago
> Sorry, which websites were warning users of potential security issues before?
Not just websites, but applications too. If you had to click "fuck off" to 100 cookie popups today, then when your email client pops up "exe files are dangerous", or your browser says "this website is not secure" you won't even read that, but just press "fuck off, make it happen".
> Any website that is doing that is basically being forced to wave a big red flag "I AM DOING DODGY THINGS WITH YOUR DATA" when you visit.
But since that's every website, it's meaningless. Especially since nobody looks at that red flag because of popup fatigue.
- wlll 6y agoI think you're speculating here. Anyway, I don't think the solution to these problems are to just get out of the way and let companies play fast and loose with our data, it's to continually push them to do better.
- knorker 6y agoAm i speculating that all sites of nontrivial size has a cookie popup (or legally should have)? Or that popup fatigue is a thing? Could you be more specific? I'm not saying there's no problem. I'm saying this doesn't even close to address the problem, and it makes everything much worse.