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Remember when popup blockers were functional and desirable and clicking on links took you to the content promised? It's unpleasant to live in a world with gover
by barrysteve 4y ago
Remember when popup blockers were functional and desirable and clicking on links took you to the content promised? It's unpleasant to live in a world with government mandated cookie tracking disclaimers as pop ups. This one is particularly obstructive, blocking the whole page.
- pessimizer 4y agoI have a suspicion that this particular banner and many others could be fixed by not setting a tracking cookie in order to read an article.
- dspillett 4y ago> government mandated cookie tracking disclaimers as pop ups It is not government mandated at all. Sites could do away with all the banners if tracking was opt-in. Sites could do away with complex pop-overs if opting out was easy, but they want to make opting out as difficult as possible and accidentally opting in as easy as possible. Heck, even if you do consider it government mandated: most sites are not compliant with the mandates as it should be as easy or easier to opt-out as it is to opt-in. Governments can make life a pain in many ways, but don't blame them for what corporations and individuals very deliberately do to you in order to get around the letter of the law (or to break it in a way they hope to, and so far often do, get away with). > This one is particularly obstructive, blocking the whole page. This particular site seems to do things right IMO though (or as close to right as makes no odds, compared to most). Yes there is a pop-over, but the options default to opt-out, the whole thing can be dismissed in a single click without opting in, and you can't easily accidentally opt-in. ---- EDIT: checked on mobile, and it does indeed take up practically the whole screen – but given it plays nice in practically every other way I can deal with that.