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The absolute worse for me was when I found myself trying to explain to my grandma that you must ALLOW cookie preferences, but you must absolutely DENY notificat

• mort96 4y ago
  The shitty thing is, she'd probably be better served by denying cookie preferences... but despite whatever regulations say, companies find impressively difficult ways to keep the user from answering "no, please don't spy on me".
• felixg3 4y ago
  In Firefox, for example, you can deny every request for notifications in the settings. For the cookie thing you can just install “I don’t care about cookies”
  • t0mas88 4y ago
    Same in Chrome, it's great: https://zapier.com/blog/block-notifications-chrome/ https://zapier.com/blog/block-notifications-chrome/
  • colinsane 4y ago
    i hope you understand the inherent irony of your second suggestion, but if you missed it: I Don’t Care About Cookies just got bought by one of these companies known for similar types of abusive UX (surveillance-ware).
    • fisian 4y ago
      There is a fork by the community "I still don't care about cookies" (note the "still") that should avoid any evil stuff Avast would do to the original extension.
      • jamincan 4y ago
        But, of course, you have to be a savvy enough, and informed enough user to even know this.
  • Nextgrid 4y ago
    If you're going to install add-ons, just get them uBlock Origin and enable all filter lists. The "annoyances" lists block all the cookie madness.
• smallerfish 4y ago
  Every cookie banner that I've ever clicked "no" on has let me proceed to the main site. The user is still a potential viewer of ads, even if they can't be microtargeted, so it's worth it to the site to let them proceed.