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Is there a way to pre-approve cookies for all sites? The law to require those pop ups has done more to ruin the web for me than ads have (since you can block ad

Is there a way to pre-approve cookies for all sites? The law to require those pop ups has done more to ruin the web for me than ads have (since you can block ads).

wastholm 6y ago
I use the "I don't care about cookies" Firefox add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-about-cookies/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-a...
nicbou 6y ago
I Don't Care About Cookies is really good. On Firefox Mobile you can add a uBlock Origin blocklist that removes many of them.
- jlokier 6y ago
  Do you know if there's an "I Do Care About Cookies" extension to automatically always decline? (If not, than an extension just to find and show the correct decline option when it's cunningly encrypted in a sequence of hidden yes/no/no/no/yes/no type slider options with ambiguously written labels would be nice instead!)
  - superjan 6y ago
    If the popup is trying to be compliant with gdpr, “more options” followed by “save” should do. They are not allowed to enable tracking by default.
  - nicbou 6y ago
    If you block tracking scripts and third-party cookies by default, that shouldn't be necessary.
croes 6y ago
Cookies aren't only for ads. And the pop ups wouldn't be necessary if the site owner would stop that tracking bullshit. Just turn it off and give me an option to activate it if I want.
selfhoster11 6y ago
Website designers could just not have cookies. This is the original intent of the law.
- playpause 6y ago
  Evidently that is not happening, whatever the intent.
  - marcosdumay 6y ago
    Well, if trouble-free usability is advantageous to you, you can have a competitive advantage by doing just that.
  - chriswarbo 6y ago
    This is due to two reasons: - Overly-defensive company policies, which ask for consent "just in case" - A bandwagon effect of "everyone else is doing it" The first is quite understandable, and has been policy at every company I've worked for/with. One decided to remove all cookies rather than adding a consent popup; the only cookie we used was for "remember me" on login, so we changed the default to false and put a note next to the tick box. Every other company I've worked for/with has decided to add a popup instead; unsurprisingly, they were also setting a whole bunch of tracking and adware cookies. The problems I have with the "bandwagon" are that (a) popups are more obvious and memorable than not having popups, which biases the bandwagon effect towards the obnoxious behaviour (availability heuristic); and (b) users seeing all these popups think they must be necessary, and misattribute their cause (e.g. thinking GDPR requires them, rather than companies either playing it safe or refusing to stop surveillance).
- Mauricebranagh 6y ago
  Not designing bloated website designs I think you mean
  - jlokier 6y ago
    No, it's really about the tracking cookies. You can have as much design as you like. Bloated website designs don't need tracking cookies, and tracking cookies are the only type that needs explicit consent.
Rexxar 6y ago
The law doesn't require this style of pop-up. They are voluntarily made annoying by some site owners (same for ads, it is the site choice).
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hue3 6y ago
You can also block cookie notices with the plug-in "I don't care about cookies".
Kuinox 6y ago
With uBlock Origin you can check "annoyance" lists and you wont be bothered anymore.

Is there a way to pre-approve cookies for all sites? The law to require those pop ups has done more to ruin the web for me than ads have (since you can block ads).

wastholm 6y ago

I use the "I don't care about cookies" Firefox add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-about-cookies/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-a...

nicbou 6y ago

I Don't Care About Cookies is really good. On Firefox Mobile you can add a uBlock Origin blocklist that removes many of them.

jlokier 6y ago
Do you know if there's an "I Do Care About Cookies" extension to automatically always decline? (If not, than an extension just to find and show the correct decline option when it's cunningly encrypted in a sequence of hidden yes/no/no/no/yes/no type slider options with ambiguously written labels would be nice instead!)
- superjan 6y ago
  If the popup is trying to be compliant with gdpr, “more options” followed by “save” should do. They are not allowed to enable tracking by default.
- nicbou 6y ago
  If you block tracking scripts and third-party cookies by default, that shouldn't be necessary.

croes 6y ago

Cookies aren't only for ads. And the pop ups wouldn't be necessary if the site owner would stop that tracking bullshit. Just turn it off and give me an option to activate it if I want.

selfhoster11 6y ago

Website designers could just not have cookies. This is the original intent of the law.

playpause 6y ago
Evidently that is not happening, whatever the intent.
- marcosdumay 6y ago
  Well, if trouble-free usability is advantageous to you, you can have a competitive advantage by doing just that.
- chriswarbo 6y ago
  This is due to two reasons: - Overly-defensive company policies, which ask for consent "just in case" - A bandwagon effect of "everyone else is doing it" The first is quite understandable, and has been policy at every company I've worked for/with. One decided to remove all cookies rather than adding a consent popup; the only cookie we used was for "remember me" on login, so we changed the default to false and put a note next to the tick box. Every other company I've worked for/with has decided to add a popup instead; unsurprisingly, they were also setting a whole bunch of tracking and adware cookies. The problems I have with the "bandwagon" are that (a) popups are more obvious and memorable than not having popups, which biases the bandwagon effect towards the obnoxious behaviour (availability heuristic); and (b) users seeing all these popups think they must be necessary, and misattribute their cause (e.g. thinking GDPR requires them, rather than companies either playing it safe or refusing to stop surveillance).
Mauricebranagh 6y ago
Not designing bloated website designs I think you mean
- jlokier 6y ago
  No, it's really about the tracking cookies. You can have as much design as you like. Bloated website designs don't need tracking cookies, and tracking cookies are the only type that needs explicit consent.

Rexxar 6y ago

The law doesn't require this style of pop-up. They are voluntarily made annoying by some site owners (same for ads, it is the site choice).

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hue3 6y ago

You can also block cookie notices with the plug-in "I don't care about cookies".

Kuinox 6y ago

With uBlock Origin you can check "annoyance" lists and you wont be bothered anymore.