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I've stopped reading several online publications, and using several service providers because they either try to dark-pattern-bully me into consenting, or just
by bborud 5y ago
I've stopped reading several online publications, and using several service providers because they either try to dark-pattern-bully me into consenting, or just can't seem to "remember" my choices.
Every time I see one of the GDPR popups it incentivizes me to think "do I really need to access this content?" - and more and more often I just think "no" and delete the bookmark or make a mental note that "this website isn't worth the click".
- Linosaurus 5y ago> or just can't seem to "remember" my choices. That's actually a good question... how would you do that. I guess the website would need explicit consent to save a cookie with the information that you consent to nothing else.
- ls15 5y agoAnd that's how cookie consent management platforms (CMP) were born. Storing your privacy preferences on yet another third-party platform since 2017. I always found this kind of ironic.
- bborud 5y agoOnly, much of the time they don't actually seem to work. They remind me of those little fan-like gadgets people sell online that goes in your car air intake and supposedly gives you more horsepower. I've always been amazed that there is enough of a market for things, that rather obviously do not work, for companies to actually bother making and selling these things.
- Thiez 5y agoYou do not need consent to place a cookie for just that purpose, so there is really no good reason for a website to forget your choices.
- afiori 5y agoIf the full reject is easy and I am not logged in to a website then personally I like it if the website does not remember my choices: I asked not to be tracked and now they are not tracking me.