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superasn 5y ago
I use the "I don't care about cookies" chrome ext and it has made my life better. But I guess using that extension you are kinda accepting all cookies.
croes 5y ago
To bad the cookie for only strictly necessary cookies is not strictly necessary.
- inopinatus 5y ago
  Tick for permission to fill up localstorage with crap
thih9 5y ago
> Why do they show it every time? I assume if the user chooses “strictly necessary cookies”, SO saves as little data as possible, and they decide to not save that choice. Obviously the UX is terrible for the user concerned about privacy. One option that for now still works is to hide the popup with an external tool like uBlock Origin.
- pmontra 5y ago
  Until they'll start drawing web sites on canvas with webassembly.
  - matheusmoreira 5y ago
    Is this really something that's likely to happen?
    - frafersob 5y ago
      Google Docs just announced their intention to do exactly that.
- Macha 5y ago
  > I assume if the user chooses “strictly necessary cookies”, SO saves as little data as possible, and they decide to not save that choice. This feels like malicious compliance. Storing an "Opt out: Yes" cookie is clearly not personal data requiring consent, but not storing it makes the opt out experience more frustrating than opt in which I suspect is the real point.
  - ncallaway 5y ago
    Yea, I’ve just decided to use Stack Overflow as minimally as possible since they clearly made an explicit choice to be user hostile here.
dvdkon 5y ago
They actually show it only once per StackExchange site, it's just that there are quite a few of those now. And the settings can be changed from a link in the footer. All in all, probably the best they could do without eschewing tracking altogether, in my opinion.
- matheusmoreira 5y ago
  > probably the best they could do without eschewing tracking altogether Why can't they just do that?

I use the "I don't care about cookies" chrome ext and it has made my life better. But I guess using that extension you are kinda accepting all cookies.

croes 5y ago

To bad the cookie for only strictly necessary cookies is not strictly necessary.

inopinatus 5y ago
Tick for permission to fill up localstorage with crap

thih9 5y ago

> Why do they show it every time? I assume if the user chooses “strictly necessary cookies”, SO saves as little data as possible, and they decide to not save that choice. Obviously the UX is terrible for the user concerned about privacy. One option that for now still works is to hide the popup with an external tool like uBlock Origin.

pmontra 5y ago
Until they'll start drawing web sites on canvas with webassembly.
- matheusmoreira 5y ago
  Is this really something that's likely to happen?
  - frafersob 5y ago
    Google Docs just announced their intention to do exactly that.
Macha 5y ago
> I assume if the user chooses “strictly necessary cookies”, SO saves as little data as possible, and they decide to not save that choice. This feels like malicious compliance. Storing an "Opt out: Yes" cookie is clearly not personal data requiring consent, but not storing it makes the opt out experience more frustrating than opt in which I suspect is the real point.
- ncallaway 5y ago
  Yea, I’ve just decided to use Stack Overflow as minimally as possible since they clearly made an explicit choice to be user hostile here.

dvdkon 5y ago

They actually show it only once per StackExchange site, it's just that there are quite a few of those now. And the settings can be changed from a link in the footer. All in all, probably the best they could do without eschewing tracking altogether, in my opinion.

matheusmoreira 5y ago
> probably the best they could do without eschewing tracking altogether Why can't they just do that?