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I had a cookie consent form today that literally spun and said “processing” with a progress bar for a while. Clearly, it’s artificial and it’s just pushing me t

I had a cookie consent form today that literally spun and said “processing” with a progress bar for a while. Clearly, it’s artificial and it’s just pushing me to accept all. The cookie consent stuff is trash because of implementers being malicious in implementation. If anything, the laws need to go further and keep the consent, but ban/enforce against dark patterns.

grishka 5y ago
From a technical POV, the cookie stuff makes no sense. It should be done browser-side and the websites shouldn't have a say in the matter. I have: - Third-party cookies disabled with a few exceptions (disqus) - A filter list to hide cookie notices
- jboy55 5y ago
  I completely agree, the individual websites asking almost seem to paint a picture that managing 3rd party cookies is a chore, where as the browser is the agent that makes cookies possible in the first place.
  - grishka 5y ago
    Most websites work fine with third-party cookies disabled so there's not much to manage either. Those that break are usually owned by companies that monetize with ads (some of yandex's services), which is telling, or are just very poorly made (aliexpress).
- account42 5y ago
  The GDPR is not about cookies but about data collection and tracking irrespective of the implementation. If browsers block cookies by default, websites will just use other methods to store and correlate the information.
nopcode 5y ago
> If anything, the laws need to go further and keep the consent, but ban/enforce against dark patterns. Many of the dark patterns used today are already illegal. Noyb actively reaches out to the owners of those sites and threatens (and probably will) sue them if they don't fix it.