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Off topic: This website needs me to 'accept & close' cookies before i read the article. I had people respond to me in a gdpr thread saying that they never acce

Off topic: This website needs me to 'accept & close' cookies before i read the article. I had people respond to me in a gdpr thread saying that they never accept cookies example : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26360345 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26360345 What do such ppl do here? just not read the article?

Sebb767 6y ago
Depends. If the pop up is something along the lines of "we only have functional cookies", that's okay anyway. If they try to force advertising cookies I'll look for an alternative site (i.e. for coding help) or skip the article. Same if the popup is designed in way that skipping is more work than the content is worth. Of course, sometimes you direly need some info and can't skip it, but these situations are extremely rare.
- dominotw 6y ago
  Curious. Did you skip this article ? from their privacy policy https://www.ieee.org/security-privacy.html https://www.ieee.org/security-privacy.html > What information do we collect? IEEE collects the following personal data in line with the use purposes explained in a subsequent section: - Your name and contact details - Date of birth - Online profile data/usage - Emergency contact information - Social media profile information - Copies of identification documents - Education and professional information - Communication information including IEEE Online Support and Contact Center communications - Purchasing and payment information - Registration and participation in IEEE events and activities - Subscription preferences - Information about the device(s) you use - Information about service usage - Cookies - Authentication data - Location information - Author and peer review information - Other information you upload or provide to us How do we use your information? To engage with third parties. IEEE may share your personal data with third parties in connection with services that these individuals or entities perform for or with IEEE.
  - Sebb767 6y ago
    > Curious. Did you skip this article ? In this case no, as I did not need to click "accept" in order to read articles. With an intrusive pop up, I most likely would have. Overall, though, I'd probably need to make an exception for IEEE anyway as it hosts a lot of papers for my field of study. To be fair, though, I'm not a hardcore data protection activists. It might be possible to start a complaint or check whether the website does tracking without clicking "I accept" (and I'm pretty sure most do), but unfortunately my life is only so long and the effect is probably rather small. I highly dislike that this tactic works for them, but I'm only willing to sacrifice so much. Also, I still run no script and ad blockers, so the effective tracking is hopefully limited anyway.
matt-attack 6y ago
I typically use "reader mode" in whatever browser I'm on. It typically shows the article nicely even when either a cookie consent modal, or an ad would otherwise be blocking the content. The MiniHack app on iOS does this as well.
gvb 6y ago
Disable Javascript. I use NoScript on Firefox. For IEEE, I had to (temporarily) whitelist the main site to get the article sans all the crap. I find this is pretty common when browsing with Javascript mostly disabled.

Sebb767 6y ago

Depends. If the pop up is something along the lines of "we only have functional cookies", that's okay anyway. If they try to force advertising cookies I'll look for an alternative site (i.e. for coding help) or skip the article. Same if the popup is designed in way that skipping is more work than the content is worth. Of course, sometimes you direly need some info and can't skip it, but these situations are extremely rare.

dominotw 6y ago
Curious. Did you skip this article ? from their privacy policy https://www.ieee.org/security-privacy.html https://www.ieee.org/security-privacy.html > What information do we collect? IEEE collects the following personal data in line with the use purposes explained in a subsequent section: - Your name and contact details - Date of birth - Online profile data/usage - Emergency contact information - Social media profile information - Copies of identification documents - Education and professional information - Communication information including IEEE Online Support and Contact Center communications - Purchasing and payment information - Registration and participation in IEEE events and activities - Subscription preferences - Information about the device(s) you use - Information about service usage - Cookies - Authentication data - Location information - Author and peer review information - Other information you upload or provide to us How do we use your information? To engage with third parties. IEEE may share your personal data with third parties in connection with services that these individuals or entities perform for or with IEEE.
- Sebb767 6y ago
  > Curious. Did you skip this article ? In this case no, as I did not need to click "accept" in order to read articles. With an intrusive pop up, I most likely would have. Overall, though, I'd probably need to make an exception for IEEE anyway as it hosts a lot of papers for my field of study. To be fair, though, I'm not a hardcore data protection activists. It might be possible to start a complaint or check whether the website does tracking without clicking "I accept" (and I'm pretty sure most do), but unfortunately my life is only so long and the effect is probably rather small. I highly dislike that this tactic works for them, but I'm only willing to sacrifice so much. Also, I still run no script and ad blockers, so the effective tracking is hopefully limited anyway.

matt-attack 6y ago

I typically use "reader mode" in whatever browser I'm on. It typically shows the article nicely even when either a cookie consent modal, or an ad would otherwise be blocking the content. The MiniHack app on iOS does this as well.

gvb 6y ago

Disable Javascript. I use NoScript on Firefox. For IEEE, I had to (temporarily) whitelist the main site to get the article sans all the crap. I find this is pretty common when browsing with Javascript mostly disabled.