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At least in the EU most sites seem to automatically disable nonessential cookies if you don't click Accept. The American equivalents all force you to manually u

• martin_a 5y ago
  > At least in the EU most sites seem to automatically disable nonessential cookies if you don't click Accept. They have been well-advised by their lawyers. Anything else is just a bomb waiting to explode on you.
• codedokode 5y ago
  And if someone wrote a browser extension that hides those popups (or makes them scrollable instead of sticky), the user would not need to do anything to reject cookies.
  • tpush 5y ago
    Exactly. This is an absolute key point I find most people miss in these discussions. GDPR fundamentally changes the default of whether tracking is allowed to occur or not. If a user browses the web automatically blocking (just deleting/blocking the element, not automatically clicking accept) every consent pop-up, the website is not allowed to track them nor is it allowed to block the user from using the website. If you had such a browser extension, and if websites were actually conforming to the law, all EU users could browse the web without ever seeing any popup and without ever getting tracked.
  • andrewaylett 5y ago
    This one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-about-cookies/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-a... Works brilliantly :).
    • adhesive_wombat 5y ago
      Note that sometimes that may accept cookies (not sure when it does that, but it does say it can do).